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barber-surgeon
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barber-surgeon
inferior doctor; formerly a barber performing dentistry and surgery. [Medicine: Misc.]
See : Quackery


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Remember the great French barber surgeon Ambrose Pare's admonition to all physicians; "We are sometimes to cure, often to treat, but always to console.
Whether this has been a witch doctor, a barber surgeon, a country doc, or our current array of generalists and specialists, the interaction has remained basically the same.
 
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