(in South Africa) a doctor appointed to serve a particular district.
Example sentencesExamples
- The magistrate resisted and Lopes had to call for back-up to get him to the district surgeon for a blood test.
- She was examined by a district surgeon and has filed an assault charge against the police in Somerset West.
- ‘My grandfather was a district surgeon,’ he began.
- The local district surgeon was summoned and both were certified dead at the scene.
- He had his blood drawn by a district surgeon and was detained at the Fleet Street Police Station before being released on R500 bail.