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barefoot doctor

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bare·foot doctor (bârft)
n.
A lay health care worker, especially in rural China, trained in such activities as first aid, childbirth assistance, the dispensing of drugs, and preventive medicine.


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The barefoot doctors made sure study participants took their vitamins and noted when someone developed cancer or died, whatever the cause.
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The local health care worker, previously called a barefoot doctor, and her small but tidy clinic tend to the basic needs of the villagers.
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