re: Have you ever met someone who wasn't a real doctor demand to be called "Dr".

To me that's a good debate. I think the history of the JD was that it was originally an undergraduate degree. Most of the JDs I know always laugh when they see other JDs asking to be called doctor.

I've seen a legitimate debate about whether to use ",Esq." in formal addresses and whatnot, but to me, there is no debate about using "Doctor". That's laughable.

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I've seen a legitimate debate about whether to use ",Esq." in formal addresses

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I prefer, "Your Worship". It has a nice ring to it.

He's also an Eagle Scout

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He's also an Eagle Scout

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FUUUUCK.

Duly noted.

You see, examples like that may make me eat my words.


What research could she have done at U of Phoenix?

But yeah, those with doctorates in biochemistry can probably tell more about how a drug works and why the side effects happen than even a physician so it seems absurd to claim that they are "fake doctors."

The same occurs for all of the hard sciences.


I start to waver though when you go off deep in the liberal arts, though I just might be biased

I never use it after my own name. Only when addressing other attorneys in a letter.

And I do that solely because IonaTiger and I had that discussion once and he (I believe) said he does it so I started doing it.

I really did start adding ",Esq." in letters to other attorneys because I find your incredibly graceful and we had discussed it once before