Mr. Mrs. Miss. Ms. Dr.

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To those of you who are doctors, of any field, do you "correct" people if they call you "Mr" or "Mrs" instead of saying "Doctor" before your name?

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Only assholes/newly graduated folks do this.

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do you "correct" people if they call you "Mr" or "Mrs" instead of saying "Doctor"

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only pretentious jerks do this.

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Mr. Mrs. Miss. Ms. Dr.

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A slightly different question...are teachers the only profession that will introduce themselves to fricking other adults as Mrs. Smith rather than Susan Smith? It's one thing to call another person Mr./Ms. when you meet them as a show of respect...but to introduce ones self as that drives me batty.

I'd never dream of introducing myself to anyone but a child as Mr. Tiger. In almost all cases thereafter I'll make a point of telling people to please just call me by my first name.

Jerry Punch did earn an MD, but at some point enough is enough

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To those of you who are doctors, of any field, do you "correct" people if they call you "Mr" or "Mrs" instead of saying "Doctor" before your name? Or to all of you who are not doctors, have you ever been "corrected" in this way?

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Hell no, if people call me Mr. instead of Dr. they are still trying to give me respect. Specifically, I ask people not to call me Dr. and just by my first name. I even have people just call me by my first name at work. The PhD was more of a personal accomplishment for myself than I ever worried about people calling me Dr.

If I introduce myself to kids and officials, I do introduce myself as Dr. so and so. The real funny thing is that if I go into an MD's office, they will not call me Dr. even though they know I am a Dr. The MD's think they are the only doctors, the academics think the MDs are just trained monkeys and the Vets think they are more Dr. than everyone else. Then there are the Dr. Drs. You know the people that do this, Dr. John Doe, PhD. Those are the really jackholes! :-)

Whenever a d-bag corrects me on this, I make a point of continuing to call him "Mr."

My wife is a doctor. She couldn't care less what you called her.

I worked at a bank and the sheet you sign up for to see a loan officer had "Mr/Mrs _____________" so you circle which one you were then write your name. It never failed that Dr's would scratch through "Mr/Mrs" and write Dr so and so. killed me every time.

Only assholes do this

Never corrected anyone for that. Only a holes would do such a thing