The phrase "a time when doctors" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period or situation involving doctors, often in a narrative or historical context.
Example: "There was a time when doctors relied solely on their knowledge and experience to diagnose patients."
Alternatives: "an era in which doctors" or "a period when doctors".
There was a time when doctors would instruct patients with joint replacements to take it easy.
It was a time when doctors were first using sulfa drugs to cure pneumonia.
If there was ever a time when doctors need to be as handy with a peeling knife as they are with a scalpel, this may be it.
Davis was born intersex, at a time when doctors assigned children with her anatomy a gender of "male" or "female" through surgical intervention.
Shaw looked forward to a time when doctors as competitive tradesmen were replaced by a medical profession that had been brought under responsible and effective public control.
His father was a military doctor, at a time when doctors were ill-paid and little respected, and a guilt-ravaged religious zealot whose idea of parental duty was to instill the terrors of Hell in his children.
Read Maggie's full story here The NHS saved Rachael Hogg's life twice when she was just a baby: once when she had a tumour removed from her kidney, and a second time when doctors discovered a heart defect.
At 6 20 p.m. Pacific time on Wednesday, Regina and Renata Salinas Fierros, born as one, became two for the first time when doctors made the final incision in a long and complicated operation to separate the 10-month-old conjoined twins.
Brown recalled the time when doctors at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit first asked him to get on his feet.
Oddly, at the time when doctors routinely lied to ordinary patients about their diagnoses, experts in dementia care advocated confronting confused patients with facts and truth.
There was a time when rural doctors and military doctors applied similar approaches in how they cared for patients with life-threatening conditions.
