I have to stop myself from referring to my PCP and my dentist by their first names, but then I've been going to both for years and years.

My therapist has the perfect romance author name: Cassandra October.

My parents totally call their dentist by his first name (Danny, in case it's the same one!).

I haven't been to the doctor in too long. And now I'm going to wait until I live closer to a center, instead of going back to Francine by my old house.

I used to refer to my dentist by first name because I went to a father and son practice so they were both Dr. Samelastname and when you made an appt the receptionist would ask if you were seeing Carlos or Juan.

Hey, I have a dental plan that I should totally use. Hm.

Thanks, you guys. I'll pass the messages on. And yeah, Ellison. And his databases. Ergh.

coffee: And my GP just left the practice I was going to, so I'm looking for a doc again. This will be fun.

My GP, therapist, med manager (the modern way to refer to a psychiatrist), and dentist are all female. Never planned it that way -- it just happened.

First names reflect more on the parents' choices than the bearers. Although I wouldn't be surprised if Dr. Apple Martini goes by Dr. A. Sandra Martini, at least professionally.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if Dr. Apple Martini goes by Dr. A. Sandra Martini, at least professionally.

After he went to all the trouble of changing his name in the first place?! Never!

After one disastrous experience picking an OB from a list provided by my insurance company, I chose my current OB based on gender (female), hospital affiliation (NOT NY Methodist), and reviews on ZocDoc. And I love her, as it turns out!

"Is on ZocDoc" is a prereq for me, because I do not like the telephone. From there, I filter by female doctors, office hours, and location.

Of course, since choosing my kid's pediatrician AND my PCP, both have stopped taking online appointments, and then my PCP moved to an office that is significantly less convenient than the one I originally went to, but hey, life.

Fortunately I did not choose my OB or GP by first name, because I can't pronounce either one. (OB is Katarzyna, GP is Emefre.)

I do not know my orthos' first name, and I only know his last name the day of the appointment. Burrell picked my first GP, and my second GP was "who has an appointment soon in the same office?" My migraine doctors were a) the first neuro my GP mentioned, the second neuro the first neuro mentioned, another neuro the first neuro mentioned, an ENT two nurses mentioned. I think there's an Ernestine and a Charles and a Baldeep in the bunch, but even though there are a broad mix of ethnicities, there's not a strong accent to be had.

I've rarely known the name of ER doctors, but never had accent problems there either. I'd never even thought about it as an issue. Doctors in this nabe tend to be all about the Miss and the Mrs, so they don't use my first name, I don't use theirs, so if I am presented with two all else equal choices (never happened yet), maybe it subconsciously affects my coin toss?

I might as well pick based on their star sign, because Dr Alice Watson might very well be using Alice as her English name and married into Watson and have a thick whatever accent. How would I know? I'd just ditch her after the first unsatisfactory appointment, and that would suck. But given the docs I've had, evaluating names wouldn't give me accent information.

I want asshole information. I want front desk information. I want timely response information. Name? Please.

There was a Katarzyna on Top Model one season! And no one there could pronounce her name, either.