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= March 25 =

Doctor specialist
I know that medical diagnosis, medicine prescription guide are not given here. My question is about the types of doctors.

We know that orthopedics is for bones, ophthalmologists are for eyes, cardiologist are for chest.

If someone is suffering from muscle strain, tendon tear, muscle injury, unable to bend fingers, then which doctors treat them?

Hernia operation is done by urologist or general surgean? — Preceding unsigned comment added by RojerMooreCaa (talk • contribs) 06:17, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * For the first question, a reasonable bet would involve Sports medicine. --←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:35, 25 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Next to the sports medicine specialist, there is also the specialism of physiatrist. If surgery of the skeletomuscular system gets involved, we move to the area of the orthopedist. Hernia is something else. A general surgeon is trained to perform hernia surgery. Although some specialize in hernia surgery, I don't think that this specialization is recognized by a name of its own. In many parts of the world, it should not be hard to find a surgeon with expertise in inguinal hernia surgery, but in the absence of complicating factors this is considered a relatively routine type of surgery, the surgeon's expertise being mainly called on for deciding which of many available techniques to choose. --Lambiam 10:26, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * There are also physical therapists and occupational therapists, though professional physical therapists in some countries need only hold a Masters-level degree, so they wouldn't be strictly doctors. -- Jayron 32 10:54, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * In the US, the title of Doctor of Physical Therapy does not mean one is an M.D., though, and – unlike in the UK – a DPT in the US cannot prescribe medication. --Lambiam 10:25, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Position and size of the blind spot in vertebrate eyes by species?
What's the position and size of the blind spot (optic nerve exit) in vertebrates? Is it generally like in humans or does it vary a lot by species? What happens in animals with wide fields of view such that the blind spot can't be covered by the other eye? Do birds of prey have large blind spots from having more nerves? --Frivolousy (talk) 15:10, 25 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Birds do seem to have blind spots that are more or less compensated for by their eye's position with respect to the head. Diurnal ones appear to have a larger optic nerve bundle https://campus.murraystate.edu/faculty/tderting/anatomyatlas/salee_shaw/hawkonl.html. GeorgiaDC (talk) 18:02, 25 March 2022 (UTC)