I think it meant "doctor" as in the verb. Certainly it made a right hash of the one or two floppies I tried it on 
hahahahahaha! I never thought of it as verb!
seemed to me like 50% of the time, DiskDoctor did nothing
25% of the time it would mangle your disk even more
5% It'd rename it "Lazarus", and you'd be able to get a couple files off.
maybe.