contentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months agoA cool guide to types of doctorsi.redd.itexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up160arrow-down1external-linkA cool guide to types of doctorsi.redd.itcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square16fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLime Buzz@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·edit-24 months agoActually a gynaecologist is not a ‘doctor of women’ since not only women have that reproductive system, not to mention many women don’t have that reproductive system as well. They’re doctors of vulvas, vaginas, ovaries, cervixes and uteri etc.
minus-squarehemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-24 months agoI guess you could say they specialize in female reproductive organs or something But this “guide” is just super simplified
minus-squareLime Buzz@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoYeah, if they’re going to be biologically essentialist, the least they could do is get their terminology correct.
Actually a gynaecologist is not a ‘doctor of women’ since not only women have that reproductive system, not to mention many women don’t have that reproductive system as well. They’re doctors of vulvas, vaginas, ovaries, cervixes and uteri etc.
I guess you could say they specialize in female reproductive organs or something
But this “guide” is just super simplified
Yeah, if they’re going to be biologically essentialist, the least they could do is get their terminology correct.