Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-does-your-name-say-about-you/ In 2015, an ...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-does-your-name-say-about-you/
In 2015, an orthopaedic surgeon called Limb, with three other doctors called Limb, wrote a paper on whether people’s names were correlated with their medical specialties. The findings were striking.
In general surgery there were practitioners called Gore, Butcher, Boyle and Blunt. In cardiology, Hart and Pump. In anaesthesia there was a Payne but also a Painstil. For the 313,445 entries in the medical register that they examined, the median frequency of names relevant to medicine was one in 149 – but in neurology, one in every 21 doctors had a name relevant to medicine. In genito-urinary medicine, one in 52 had a relevant name. The authors admitted that specialties with the largest proportion of relevant names benefitted from the wide range of alternative English terms for the same anatomical parts and their functions, as in urology’s Cox, Ball, Dick, Waterfall.
Limb et al were aware of an article on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology (1977), authored by Splatt and Weedon.
https://archive.ph/60WWl
In 2015, an orthopaedic surgeon called Limb, with three other doctors called Limb, wrote a paper on whether people’s names were correlated with their medical specialties. The findings were striking.
In general surgery there were practitioners called Gore, Butcher, Boyle and Blunt. In cardiology, Hart and Pump. In anaesthesia there was a Payne but also a Painstil. For the 313,445 entries in the medical register that they examined, the median frequency of names relevant to medicine was one in 149 – but in neurology, one in every 21 doctors had a name relevant to medicine. In genito-urinary medicine, one in 52 had a relevant name. The authors admitted that specialties with the largest proportion of relevant names benefitted from the wide range of alternative English terms for the same anatomical parts and their functions, as in urology’s Cox, Ball, Dick, Waterfall.
Limb et al were aware of an article on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology (1977), authored by Splatt and Weedon.
https://archive.ph/60WWl