That contestant on Masterchef this week was referred to as "a childrens doctor"?

[oliviacrumble]

What is wrong with the word paediatrician?Did they think we would all mistakenly assume that a paedophile had been selected as a contestant?

Well, if we're going to be really pedantic, paediatrician is a bastardised greek word, not a latin one .

Children's doctor was v odd.

Bit like announcing on national tv that I'm a gasman.....

In response to the post further up the thread Gynaecologists =fanny mechanic

whatever. thankfully have forgotten all my greek.

your grin kind of proves my point though - whats wrong with using plain english, or do you get a kick out of knowing its greek?

The grin was to show that the comment was in jest, apologies if it came out the wrong way.

calm down folks, no need to squabble over it.

I like fanny mechanic.