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You go to the GP - General Practitioner.

• leephillips 5y ago
  So that’s what people use in conversation? They don’t use “doctor” as a synonym for physician?
  • aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 5y ago
    Isn’t that what they say in Britain? “GP”?
    • laingc 5y ago
      Yes
  • coyotespike 5y ago
    If it's as in Britain - and New Zealand is a Commonwealth country - then yes, people say, "I have an appointment with my GP."
    • tzs 5y ago
      My copies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories of Sherlock Holmes speak of Doctor Watson rather than GP Watson. Is this a Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerer's Stone situation where someone published an Americanized edition and that's what I have?
      • _nalply 5y ago
        No, I think it's because GP is a newish term.
      • laingc 5y ago
        There’s a difference between “being a doctor” and “Dr Watson”. Nobody would ever say an academic is “a doctor”.
  • Taniwha 5y ago
    we do use "doctor" as a synonym fro GP, but we also understand that it's a traditional customary title and they don't actually have a doctorate
  • laingc 5y ago
    As others have commented, you would indeed say, “I have an appointment with my GP.” However, people would certainly know what you meant if you said “I’m going to see the doctor.”