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So wait, now I'm confused.
Do you agree that OB/GYNs are surgeons or not?
No I do not.
So would it be safe to say that OB/GYNs are Gynecologic surgeons?
are the OB/GYN trained Urogynecology guys not surgeons?
I think you are attempting to split hairs too finely.
If you have surgical training (which Ob Gyn is not, they are trained to do *some* surgical procedures which does not a surgeon make) and your practice is doing surgery, then you are a surgery. Family pracitioners remove appendices and do hernia repairs, that does not make them surgeons.
A Gyne Oncologist is a surgeon, not because of their Ob-Gyn training, but in spite of it. Its the fellowship training and their day to day practice which is surgical and makes them surgeons.
At any rate, this has been discussed extensively above.