I personally have never got too worried about our name. Having said that, I do think we need to move away from calling ourselves Respiratory Physios (as is common place here in the UK) as this implies that we do not take the cardiac system into consideration. Most of the public would not know the difference between any of the names (truthfully the majority of the general public are not even aware that we work in this speciality!). I think that the different names have varying inferences depending on locality. In the UK cardiothoracic implies a surgical post. I will sit on the fence on this one and am interested in what others think!