On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:52:27 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

> On 3/16/2016 6:17 PM, Roy wrote:
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> >
> > Julie, does your endocrinologist know that you refer to him as "my Endo"? Not very good form to familiarize his profession status in such a way.
> > If I were to refer to my Thoracic surgeon as "my Thoracic guy", it wouldn't go over too well with his peers, I am sure.
>
> Why? I know a doctor that referred to a cardiologist as "the heart guy"
> Doctors are real people too. Had dinner with a couple of them last
> night in fact. They are not as stuffy as you make them out to be.

Which reminds me of the Seinfeld episode about the proctologist's
license plate that said "ass man".

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