- to obtain prescriptions for a controlled substance from more than one healthcare practitioner at a time: Some patients doctor shop in an attempt to score multiple prescriptions for painkillers.One theory about the celebrity’s fatal overdose is that the medication may have been doctor-shopped.
- to visit one physician after another in search of a satisfactory one or a particular outcome: The patient appears to have schizophrenia, and to have doctor shopped for a diagnosis of autism.
