quack:
(plural: ‘quacks‘; for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a cartoon depicting a quack (L)
an unqualified, untrained and unlicensed person who pretends to be a qualified medical doctor/physician and gives medicine and medical treatment to all sorts of patients;
an informal term for a medical doctor, especially in Briton, Australia and New Zealand
a quack (standing) treating a patient (sitting) right by the roadside
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Poor people who cannot afford expensive medical treatment in corporate hospitals go to the quacks because they are cheap and the treatment is simple.
In some Asian countries, quacks even perform minor surgeries, including amputations, eye, nose & throat operations and pulling out teeth.
Taking advantage of the ignorance of some illiterates, quacks in some societies earned a lot of money by claiming that they a treatment for HIV aids!
