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Miserable medic particularly drained (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mopy

'miserable' is the definition.

'medic particularly drained' is the wordplay.
'medic' becomes 'mo' (medical officer).
'drained' means to remove the middle letters.
'particularly' with its middle removed is 'py'.
'mo'+'py'='MOPY'

(Other definitions for mopy that I've seen before include "Blue" , "dejected" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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