Meanings
- idiomaticpluralplural of the good doctor. An honorific for a group of doctors, especially for a group of doctors of medicine (physicians).
“The good doctors tell us he is better of the wound,” resumed the mother.
1882, Inde (June 1882), "The letter “S”; or, The Jocelyn sin", chapters 5–8, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly 13(6):705–718, page 7082 more examples
According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, in reality, this “independent” surveying was conducted by R.J. Reynolds’ ad agency, the William Esty Co., who would send staff to query physicians about their smoking habits at medical conferences and in their offices. They’d ask about their cigarette brand of choice, most of the time, after just having provided the good doctors with free cartons of Camels.
2012, Rupal Parekh (13 August 2012), Rewind: 1949 cigarette spot declares ‘Doctors smoke Camels’, Advertising Age (retrieved 2017-10-24; archived from the original 2017-07-01)With all respect to the good doctors at the university-based institute who evaluated him, they were not up on the literature on mental giftedness.
2013, Enrico Gnaulati (21 September 2013), "That’s not autism: It’s simply a brainy, introverted boy", Salon (retrieved 2017-10-23; archived from the original 2017-08-13)
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