[cassianoleal]

Legit question, I've always wondered... Why do people in the USA spell and pronounce that word as if it were an initialism? I mean OBGYN or OB-GYN as I've seen spelled elsewhere as well. As far as I can tell, it's not 5 words but rather 2: Obstetrician and Gynecologist.

[al_borland]

We generally spell out titles for doctors or others in the medical field. PHD, MD, DDS, DO, OBGYN, etc.

It could also be, in part, because if it was lowercase people would try to say it instead of spelling out the letters.

People will often say “gyno” instead of gynecologist, if just talking about that.

[cassianoleal]

> PHD, MD, DDS, DO, OBGYN

PhD is an "almost initialism" :P and would be very hard to read without spelling out the letters.

MD, DDS and DO are initialisms and there's no other way to read it.

ObGyn is more of an acronym and it would make sense to read it as a word.