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Doctors vs Quackery - What's the difference?

doctors | quackery |

As nouns the difference between doctors and quackery

is that doctors is plural of lang=en while quackery is the practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.

As a verb doctors

is third-person singular of doctor.

doctors

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (doctor)

    • quackery

    English

    Noun

  • (legal, medicine, uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
  • (countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.

    • Quotations

    * 1772 : Edmund Burke, ed, The Annual Register *: His intentions were admirable, and his quackery had in view the public good; [...]

    Related terms

    * quack

    See also

    * fraud * snake oil