5 ms·
Some doctors I know have done this almost deliberately. My favourite is probably Dr Wombwell... who decided to become a gynaecologist.
by azalemeth 5y ago
Some doctors I know have done this almost deliberately. My favourite is probably Dr Wombwell... who decided to become a gynaecologist.
- kiddico 5y agoIt just seems like a crime to not lean into a name like that. It does make me wonder how someone ends up with a surname like that. I'd assume from the same profession cast back a few years.
- stevula 5y agoWombwell is apparently the name of a town in England. According to the wiki article it may have originally referred to a well owned by a certain Womba (in Anglo-Saxon times I assume).
- azalemeth 5y agoAnd she is English and inherited it from parents working in IT! (It was pronounced like a well-wishing womble prior to medical school, but definitely 'womb-well' afterwards...)
- odiroot 5y agoWhen I still lived in Berlin, there was a psychiatrist in my district named Totenkopf (dead head).