doctor shopping

Noun

Meaning

doctor shopping (uncountable)

(medicine, crime) The illegal practice of a patient requesting treatment from multiple physicians in order to obtain prescription drugs, either to feed an addiction or resell them.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

double doctoring

Close letter words and terms

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