Comparing a obstetrician referring to their patient who is delivering a child from their uterus, as a mother, to a boss calling his secretary "hon", has to be one of the most astonishingly out-of-touch comments I have ever read.

Tell me - now we're rewriting all the medical and biology textbooks, what term are you going to use for the person with the uterus gestating the child? "Father" does not work medically - urology has nothing to do with obstetrics!