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private clinician; physician in private practice
近所の開業医に行った。
I went to the neighborhood private practice doctor.
彼女は病院を辞め、開業医になった。
She left the hospital and became a private practitioner.
地方の開業医は人手不足に悩んでいる。
Private practitioners in rural areas are struggling with staff shortages.