medicophobic

English

Etymology

From medico- +‎ -phobic.

Adjective

medicophobic (comparative more medicophobic, superlative most medicophobic)

1. Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting medicophobia.
   • 1961 December, Montague Ullman, “Reactive States Following Strokes”, in The Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society, volume 58, number 7, →PMID, page 270:

     The patients, now no longer members of a captive audience, once again become either medico-philic or medico-phobic, depending on whether they are trying to push the whole experience behind them or seek to exploit the situation in the service of dependency needs.

   • 1975 May, Michael J. Asken, “Medical Psychology: Psychology's Neglected Child”, in Professional Psychology, volume 6, number 2, →DOI, page 157:

     A possible explanation for the lack of involvement may be the typical training and employment pattern of the psychologist that isolates him from medical psychological concerns. This is due largely to the medico[-]phobic nature of his training.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:medicophobic.

Synonyms

• iatrophobic