also: げい
bad physician; incompetent doctor
A derogatory term for a doctor who lacks skill or ethics. Not a common modern word; more often encountered in historical or literary contexts.
If you go to that bad doctor, your illness will actually get worse.
In old novels, bad physicians often appear.
Standard kanji spelling with the regular reading かい.
Irregular kana reading げい, marked as irregular kana usage. Rare and likely a historical or dialectal variant.
A Sino-Japanese compound of 下, “inferior,” and 医, “physician,” denoting an incompetent doctor.