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Erica Weir's letter on onomastic criteria for authorship¹ inspired me to pull out my name collection. Starting in medical school with Brain's Clinical Neurology, I noticed that an inordinate number of physicians have apropos names. Here is a sampling of the names I have collected over the years:

· Dr. Ades: scientist studying HIV infection rates in babies

· Dr. Aikinhead: allergist

· Dr. Babey: family physician

· Dr. Colon: a psychiatrist, but he shoulda been a ...

· Dr. Deadman: coroner

· Dr. Healy: surgeon

· Dr. Foley: urologist

· Dr. Foote: podiatrist

· Dr. Iball: eye surgeon

· Dr. Morales: sex counsellor

· Dr. Nurse: obstetrician

· Dr. Pain: obstetrician

· Dr. Pipe: founding chair of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada

· Dr. Quirk: psychiatrist

· Dr. Shin: orthopedic surgeon

· Drs. Splatt and Weedon: researchers studying the urethral syndrome

· Dr. Studd: runs an infertility clinic

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Susan Boron
Family physician Kincardine, Ont.