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Collective terms for doctors
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Why is it that you can see a pride of lions, a murder of crows, a parliament of owls, and other such delightful collective terms, but only a boring crowd of journalists, historians, and doctors? In fact, one uses the same collective term, "crowd," for all sorts of doctors.
I propose a new set of collective terms for doctors. This list is a rather subjective choice, but I have tried to use terms appropriate to each specialty.
I have borrowed some terms from the animal kingdom because they are appropriate or are alliterative. Thus, we have a pride of surgeons, for a group (there we go again) of doctors who are not known for their modesty, yet are aggressive, adventurous, and brave. Often, they are the kings of the hospital as well. Appropriate use of alliteration allows me to adopt the term gaggle of gynaecologists.
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- Philip F. Hall
bmj.com, 21 Dec 2002 [Full text] - More collective nouns for doctors
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- Jon Mymin
bmj.com, 22 Dec 2002 [Full text] - Guddle of gynaecologists
- William S. Craig
bmj.com, 22 Dec 2002 [Full text] - Collective Nouns for Doctors
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bmj.com, 23 Dec 2002 [Full text] - More collective nouns
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bmj.com, 23 Dec 2002 [Full text] - And there's more....
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bmj.com, 29 Dec 2002 [Full text] - a pride of doctors?
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bmj.com, 30 Dec 2002 [Full text] - Collectivism is dead
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