How to Sign "Doctor" in American Sign Language (ASL)

In ASL, you make the "doctor" sign by tapping a "D" hand shape on your wrist two times. This movement comes from how doctors used to check people's pulses by feeling their patients' wrists in the old days. People use this sign a lot when they talk about health, meet doctors, or discuss medical stuff. Sometimes people tap the "D" on their chest instead of their wrist, but most use the wrist version. If you want to name a special kind of doctor, you first sign "doctor" and then add what they do, like signing "doctor" and then "heart" to mean a heart doctor.