Medical charlatans whose skills and attitudes are typical of the practitioners found in military sickbays and working for the Veterans Health Administration. They pretend to be able to diagnose and heal like other doctors, but are generally unqualified, incompetent, and lazy. Sickbay doctors lack curiosity and are usually ignorant of the latest advances in medicine. Most are simply inept, but others may use techniques, substances, or devices for the prevention and treatment of disease that are known to be ineffective and possibly dangerous.
I went to my local VA Clinic because I was suffering from severe cramps, a fever, and dizziness. Unfortunately, they sent me to one of their sickbay doctors who told me to take an antacid, and go home to rest. I later found out in the Emergency Room of my local hospital that my appendix had ruptured.
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Person 1: "Have you heard of the Anti Twisted Doctor Republic?"
Person 2: "No."
Person 1: " Me neither."
Person 2: "No."
Person 1: " Me neither."
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A Piece of ScHmITt (see related entry) constitutes a subtype with a high potential to attract media exposure, although it accounts for only a small portion of all doctoral feces produced.
A Piece of ScHmITt (see related entry) constitutes a subtype with a high potential to attract media exposure, although it accounts for only a small portion of all doctoral feces produced.
Not long after our professors started using plagiarism detector software retroactively, they realized doctoral feces are piling up in our faculty library.
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Most often this is in the political context, usually conservative, with the spin doctor masquerading as a journalist or "expert in the field" to lend credibility to what's actually just a PR line cooked up by the right-wing.
Most often this is in the political context, usually conservative, with the spin doctor masquerading as a journalist or "expert in the field" to lend credibility to what's actually just a PR line cooked up by the right-wing.
After "Deep Throat" finally revealed himself as W. Mark Felt in May, 2005, a parade of spin doctors, old Nixon cronies and convicted Watergate felons appeared in the media, trying to tarnish Felt in any way they could, to distract from and lessen in the public's mind the enormity of the crimes they'd committed 30 years ago.
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