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What did Doc Holliday use his dentistry degree for in the American West?

  • Opening a hospital

  • Dentistry

  • Teaching medicine

  • Becoming a sheriff

Answer

Holliday did use his dentistry degree for dentistry, but it was not his main profession. Holliday was a gambler, gunfighter, and outlaw who became a dentist in the American West. He practiced dentistry in Dodge City, Kansas, Tombstone, Arizona, and Leadville, Colorado.
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