Health professionals

Use lower case for when referring to health professions, including specialists:

doctor     nurse     anaesthetist     neurosurgeon

The obstetricians and midwives worked together to …

He visited his general practitioner (GP).

Reminder. Just because the abbreviation of a term is made up of capitals, it does not mean that the term has initial capitals when it is spelt out.

See also Job titles.

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