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If you want to compound the ambiguity with bad grammar, you might consider the "Doctor's visit" to mean a visit WITH the doctor. That way it doesn't matter whether there's an apostrophe or not, or who went to whose place, and it has the perverse added attraction of having no grammatical consistency whatsoever. (Well, maybe the consistency of watery gruel. If you insist.)
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Maybe because it's the doctor's visit 'til she skins you for it.
[/end of bad joke]
I serspect "doctors" is an error and "doctor's" is an ignograph.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Come to think of it, how could it be "doctors visit" unless you are seen by more than one?
Remember poor Christopher Robin bundled up in his bed, languishing:
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They sent for some doctors in sneezles and wheezles
To tell them what ought to be done.
All sorts and conditions of famous physicians
Came hurrying 'round at a run.
..."
Now that's a "Doctors Visit."
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>>come to think of it
persacly
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