Do patients keep coming in streams to him? (7)

I believe the answer is:

surgeon

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'do patients keep coming in streams to him?' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

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(Other definitions for surgeon that I've seen before include "Doctor in the navy" , "Naval doctor" , "9 practitioner (through keyhole?)" , "one used to working in the theatre" , "Medical practitioner - go nurse (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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