pill-pusher

pill pusher

slang Someone, especially a medical doctor, who is authorized to prescribe medication. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. Being a psychiatrist is about a whole lot more than being a pill pusher—medication should be the very last resort when treating a patient. You shouldn't go to some pill pusher every time you have a cough. You're body doesn't need all those drugs in it.
See also: pill, pusher
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

pill-pusher

and pill-roller and pill-peddler
n. a nickname for a physician. I went to the infirmary, but the pill-pusher wasn’t in. The lousy pill-roller just gave me some aspirin.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • pill peddler
  • pill pusher
  • pill roller
  • pill-peddler
  • pill-roller
  • chip
  • chips
  • up on (one's) ear
  • one of the boys
  • one of the lads
References in periodicals archive
This year's Pharmapack show in Paris was one-third bigger than in 2017, no doubt buoyed by this country's reputation as the biggest pill-pusher in Europe.
"You made it across, splendid," said the enigmatic pill-pusher, but he was speaking German, and, somehow, Philip knew and found he spoke German, too.
She's not a pill-pusher and is against having her patients relying solely on medicine.
Why should this decent, caring and law-abiding lady be put through so much stress and angst, when all your average burglar, pill-pusher or car thief gets is a bit of community service?
Jip's and Lulu's respective relationships leave a lot to be desired; Koop and Nina are very much in love but jealousy keeps getting in the way; and Moff is the resident pill-pusher whose main object in life seems to be to live fast and die young.
He had her pill-pusher in his sights for ages but waited until the cops arrived before pulling the trigger - and missed by a mile.
Pill-pushers who still have notorious Mortal Kombat and Green Rolex ecstasy tablets are terrified they will be caught with them.
The worst development in psychiatry has been our relegation to being "pill-pushers," off limits to psychotherapy.
Her mother, Sylvia, 61, who also lives in Cramlington, told the inquest how she was preyed on by pill-pushers who knew she would buy temazepam off them at pounds 2 a tablet.
pharma companies have developed the image of profiteering pill-pushers who play fast and loose with research studies, ad claims, and matters of product safety and risk."
The best students in medical school do not opt for psychiatry and today's psychiatrists are primarily pill-pushers who spend very little time with patients.
Pill-pushers with their eyes on the bottom line are eager to gear women up for high-tech sex with new creams, gels, and other products.
So far this summer, 18 young British "pastilleros" - pill-pushers - have been arrested on Ibiza.