Someone who opposes physicians or medical practice, or a practitioner of alternative medicine that contradicts conventional medical theory.
From anti- (against) + physician. Physician comes from Old French fisicien, ultimately from Greek physis (nature). Someone against physicians or natural medicine.
Throughout history, 'antiphysicians' ranged from herbalists to faith healers to actual quacks—but some early alternatives like willow bark for fever later proved medically valuable, showing that opposing mainstream medicine didn't always mean being wrong.
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