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Bad face lift gets foremost of doctors distressed (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

afflicted

'distressed' is the definition.
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'bad face lift gets foremost of doctors' is the wordplay.
'bad' is an anagram indicator.
'gets' says to put letters next to each other.
'foremost of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'doctors' is 'd'.
'face'+'lift'='facelift'
'facelift' is an anagram of 'afflicte'.
'afflicte'+'d'='AFFLICTED'

(Other definitions for afflicted that I've seen before include "Caused pain to" , "Diseased; suffering" , "Troubled" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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