Medical officer needing to recover in the proper way (7)

I believe the answer is:

morally

'in the proper way' is the definition.
(in the moral or proper way)

'medical officer needing to recover' is the wordplay.
'medical officer' becomes 'MO' (abbreviation).
'needing' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'to recover' becomes 'rally' (rallying is a kind of recovering).
'mo'+'rally'='MORALLY'

(Another definition for morally that I've seen is " To all intents and purposes - in terms of right and wrong".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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