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Shift doctor’s ending with nurse around (5)

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I believe the answer is:

trend

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'shift' is the definition.
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'doctor's ending with nurse around' is the wordplay.
'doctor's ending' becomes 'tre' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'nurse' becomes 'tender' (a nurse tends to patients).
'around' means to look at the middle letters.
The centre of 'tender' is 'nd'.
'tre'+'nd'='TREND'

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(Other definitions for trend that I've seen before include "Tendency or fashion" , "Style, vogue" , "Become popular on social media" , "Vogue, tendency" , "Med. port, taken by Crusaders" .)

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