Hi there, I am trying to write "Talk about our doctors surgeries", but not sure what is the correct way of saying it. Should it be "doctors'", doctor's" or just "doctors" surgeries? Or something completely different?
Thanks. In practice, I don’t think any doctor would say he or she worked for a hospital. Unless he was an administrator. But that would be a very rare exception.
doctors in tx, I think that in the doctors' minds they work for their patients. The administrators might easily feel that way too. Belly, rather to my surprise, is often used by doctors. They only use tummy when patronising their patients. Hmm ...
doctors in tx, The NHS's Bowel Cancer Screening Programme wrote to me recently. The letter lists four common symptoms of bowel cancer. One of them is "a lump in your tummy". The programme is good, so I'll disregard the patronising treatment. Given doctors' often idiosyncratic handwriting having an x instead of a period definitely benefitted legibility. I have got the impression that the abbreviations are more and more being used by laypersons in medical forums, partly morphologically integrated into the normal language system, e.g.
in I was dx'ed with MS. Would you use 'Profs' and 'Drs' as the plural abbreviation for 'Professors' and 'Doctors'? Drs John D Smith and Irving L Johnson received the awards. Profs Dean J Stevenson and Elouise F Cummings received the honors.
