dropsydoc

n. Older medical practitioner edging towards senility who reverts to employing pre-victorian names for congestive heart failure etc. With far-away looks in their fading eyes they speak fondly of agues, leeching, and torturing medical students.

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Is that dropsydoc ever going to retire? He is admittedly witty but I grow weary of his Luddite spiels, the subtle undercurrent of racism and misogyny in his diagnoses, and his flirtatious ways with the nurses.

Actually, he is retired. He just comes in for the baking … and the flirting.

by gnostic3 December 20, 2025