A word or phrase for a fake doctors or healers
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00:00 A Word Or Phrase For A Fake Doctors Or Healers
00:25 Accepted Answer Score 24
01:01 Answer 2 Score 1
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Score 24
If you are talking medicine (including pseudo-scientific medicine) then you want either quack or snake-oil salesman.
Quack (MW, noun definitions 1 & 2)
charlatan
a pretender to medical skill
Snake-oil (MW)
any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine usually without regard to their medical worth or properties
Snake-oil salesman (Cambridge)
someone who deceives people in order to get money from them
ANSWER 2
Score 1
"Quack" is the most common term I know of. Occasionally, it can be used as a derogatory term for any medical doctor
If you want something a bit more verbose/proper, use the original term "Quacksalver"
From Wiktionary:
c 1570, from Dutch kwakzalver (“hawker of salve”), from Middle Dutch quacken (“to brag, boast; to croak”)
i.e. Someone who boasts about the potency of their remedies, but is in fact a fraud.