quack has definitions from the fields of medicine,work
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[ noun ] (medicine,work) an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

Rather , it is typical of the thousands of quacks who use phony therapeutic devices to fatten themselves on the miseries of hundreds of thousands of Americans by robbing them of millions of dollars and luring them away from legitimate , ethical medical treatment of serious diseases .

The machine quack makes his Rube_Goldberg devices out of odds_and_ends of metals , wires , and radio parts .

Not_only do these quacks assume impressive titles , but represent themselves as being associated with various scientific or impressive foundations - foundations which often have little more than a letterhead existence .

According_to the Food_and_Drug_Administration ( FDA ) , `` Doctor '' Ghadiali , Dr._Albert_Abrams and his clique , and Dr._Wilhelm_Reich - to name three notorious device quacks - succeeded , respectively , in distributing 10000 , 5000 , and 2000 fake health machines .

Look_at the sums paid by two device quack victims in Cleveland .

Related terms

doctor mountebank

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[ adjective ] medically unqualified

Examples

"a quack doctor"

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

And she felt amply rewarded for her suffering when the evidence of Lee 's quack shenanigans , gathered by the tape_recorder under her friend 's clothing , proved adequate in court for convicting Franklin_D._Lee .

For_example , the BBB has reported it was receiving four_times as many inquiries about quack devices and 10 times as_many complaints compared with two years ago .

As a result , she consulted medical authorities and learned that the devices her quack `` doctor '' was using were phony .

Moreover , the diabetic patient who relies_on cure by the quack device and therefore cuts_off his insulin intake can be committing suicide .

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unqualified

3
[ verb ] utter quacking noises

Examples

"The ducks quacked"

Used in print

(E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)

He stroked the hens and they responded with delighted clucks , he gobbled with the turkeys and they at_once were all attention , he quacked with the ducks , and cackled with a pair of exceedingly flattered geese .

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utter

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[ verb ] act as a medical quack or a charlatan

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act medicine

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[ noun ] the harsh sound of a duck

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sound

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