9.07.2007


I've decided to make a game out of saying "gynecology" to Jackie as often as possible. Also, "gyno". See her blog.

You know what's always bugged me? When people (well, women) say they are going to the OB/GYN, it's supposed to be an abbreviation for obstetrician-slash-gynecologist. But they don't shorten it down and say "objin", they still spell out the abbreviation "oh-bee gee-why-en", which isn't that much shorter than just saying gynecologist. It, for some unknown reason, drives me batty.

Jackie wanted to know today why any man would become a gynecologist, and I said that, well, on first consideration it does sound more glamorous than it really is. So maybe some med students figure, hey, if I can't get a date, at least I can look at women's cooters at work - and get paid for it! But then they realize that 90% of women you really, really, really, really don't want to go there. And the 10% (or whatever) that you would want to go there - well, I'm no doctor, but I suppose that you don't want to go there in a clinical environment.

She said she didn't understand how it could sound glamorous. So I asked her, wouldn't it have sounded glamorous to be a "Penis Doctor", back when she was a young wallflower in high-school? She said no, not at all, and she didn't think there was such a thing as a Penis Doctor, but I caught her writing "Dr. Jaclyn, PD" in cursive in her notebook later that night.

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