Surgeon or surgeon – what is the correct name for women in medicine – UNIAN

With the advent of women in professions that have long been considered masculine, in particular in medicine, a need arose for those words to designate female persons (feminives) that did not exist before. Editor Olga Vasilyeva writes about this, explaining how best to call women of different medical specialties.

She notes that the suffix -in- is most organically added to the names of medical specialties that end in -g/-log: surgeon, oncologist, proctologist, neurologist, anesthesiologist – by analogy with the words goddess, princess, bereginya, duchess. If the name of the specialty ends in -t -…