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doctor shopping

a practice of visiting multiple physicians to obtain either multiple prescriptions for otherwise illegal drugs, or the medical opinion that one wants to hear
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doctor shopping

Summary

doctor shopping is a phenomenon[1]. It draws 80 Wikipedia views per month (phenomenon category, ranking #113 of 290).[2]

Key Facts

  • doctor shopping's instance of is recorded as phenomenon[3].
  • doctor shopping's subclass of is recorded as fraud[4].
  • doctor shopping's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05xrw5[5].
  • doctor shopping's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1221x_8g[6].
  • doctor shopping's Quora topic ID is recorded as Doctor-Shopping[7].

Why It Matters

doctor shopping draws 80 Wikipedia views per month (phenomenon category, ranking #113 of 290).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). doctor shopping. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/doctor-shopping
MLA “doctor shopping.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/doctor-shopping.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_doctor-shopping_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{doctor shopping}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/doctor-shopping}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): doctor shopping — https://4ort.xyz/entity/doctor-shopping (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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