Tarvitsen lääkäriä!

English Translation

I need a doctor!

Partitive strikes again. Why partitive?
If you google for “Tarvitsen lääkäriä” vs. “Tarvitsen lääkärin”, the latter has twice the amount of hits.
Also, there’s this phrasebook entry on wiktionary:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tarvitsen_lääkärin

Are both valid, but have different meaning?

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