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Posted on 6/30/24 at 9:43 am to rockford177
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If you call me by my first name in an exam room, while I am figuring out how to save your life, I will correct you once. It’s a matter of respect.
Do you call everyone in your life who provides you a service “Mr/Mrs/Ms xxxx”?
Posted on 6/30/24 at 9:57 am to Dawgfanman
A strained voice calls out through a darkened theater, “Please, is there a doctor in the house?!” followed by several men standing up as the lights come on.
An older lady asks, “Good, are any of you doctors single and interested in a date with a nice, girl?”
An older lady asks, “Good, are any of you doctors single and interested in a date with a nice, girl?”
Posted on 6/30/24 at 10:18 am to Masterag
I call mine Caveman.
Posted on 6/30/24 at 10:57 am to drjett
As an old fart, there is very little that I give a shite about anymore, & even those things are shrinking. But, how to address a doctor, with all that is going on in today's world....THIS is an issue for some? After 5+ yrs of cancer treatment, successfully, experiencing first hand what these doctors are doing for me, the last thing I want to do is waste time, mine & theirs, over such idiotic BS. When my oncologist is literally saving my life, those of the 50+ cancer patients in the waiting room, I have zero time to waste over how to address him. And if you hate insurance companies, talk to anyone in the medical profession.
Posted on 6/30/24 at 11:02 am to Masterag
I call most of my physician/surgeon friends “Doc” or “Médico” if not just their name.
Posted on 6/30/24 at 11:11 am to Masterag
The government and insurance have all but destroyed this but the patient-physician relationship is supposed to be special and different from others.
Posted on 6/30/24 at 11:18 am to Saunson69
quote:None ever? Link?
No caribbean med school grad has ever become a US surgeon
Posted on 6/30/24 at 12:39 pm to Masterag
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2. because someone went to school for a long time and passed some exams, I am expected to refer only to them with some honorific title when lots of others like lawyers, ph.d. engineers, physicists, psychologists, etc., who would likewise be "deserving" of an honorific title if it were a matter of schooling but are not.
100% agree with this.
Clayton.B. Armbruster, Esq.
Posted on 6/30/24 at 12:58 pm to Dawgfanman
If they spent 13 years of their lives in higher education to call them doctor, no. I only call a physician of medicine doctor. It’s actually illegal in some states to do so otherwise.
Posted on 6/30/24 at 1:22 pm to Masterag
I know my Dr. socially so I call him by his longtime nickname. If he ever sends me to a specialist I guess I would call the new guy Doctor but I'll play it by ear when it comes up.
Posted on 6/30/24 at 1:24 pm to notiger1997
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I’ve decided I may quit sticking my cock in watermelons.
I didnt know Rafi posted here
Posted on 6/30/24 at 1:29 pm to notiger1997
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I’ve decided I may quit sticking my cock in watermelons.
Just like quitting smoking it's easy to quit sticking your dick in watermelons. I've personally quit sticking my dick in watermelons hundreds of times.
Posted on 6/30/24 at 1:31 pm to Sidicous
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See a shrink OP. Doesn’t even need to be a truly competent one. Just get help and do NOT procreate!
Posted on 6/30/24 at 1:31 pm to Dawgfanman
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Do you call everyone in your life who provides you a service “Mr/Mrs/Ms xxxx”?
I generally "Yes ma'am, no ma'am" waitresses and female bartenders. Mostly because it makes them blush.
Posted on 6/30/24 at 1:40 pm to Norbert
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Why would you want to offend someone who is trying to help you?
He's trying to make money. No more, no less.
And he was called doctor, until the third or fourth mistake that he wouldn't own up to.
Posted on 6/30/24 at 3:22 pm to X123F45
" Make money, more or less"? There are those types of people in all professions. Sorry, I've heard too many good stories re OBGYN's as a group; spend time with parents of children who are being treated by pediatricians, any disease / medical problem. Try doing that day after day after day, as a career: there is no money in the world that would erase the emotional bonding between patient & physician. Again, as a career. Any physician specializing in treating uncurable diseases. Foot doctors .dermatologists; yea, sure.
Posted on 6/30/24 at 3:31 pm to Masterag
I’ll play along. I work in a hospital setting but not for the hospital/doctors in any capacity. I’ll poke at the ones that you can tell are just dying for someone to call them doctor. That said, 99.9% of them could gaf less and usually encourage poking at the .1% that care.
Not sure why you’d purposefully antagonize your doctor as a patient. Seems a little foolish, all things considered
Not sure why you’d purposefully antagonize your doctor as a patient. Seems a little foolish, all things considered
This post was edited on 6/30/24 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 6/30/24 at 3:42 pm to nealnan8
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2. because someone went to school for a long time and passed some exams, I am expected to refer only to them with some honorific title when lots of others like lawyers, ph.d. engineers, physicists, psychologists, etc., who would likewise be "deserving" of an honorific title if it were a matter of schooling but are not.
For most of time doctor was associated with individuals that actively contributed knowledge within their field of study. 100 years ago MDs started appropriating the title as a marketing tool and professional validation.
In an ironic twist, every couple months threads are created on the OT declare anyone using the title that isn’t an MD is a faker.
Posted on 7/1/24 at 10:03 am to rockford177
quote:In which states is it "illegal" to call a PhD a doctor?
I only call a physician of medicine doctor. It’s actually illegal in some states to do so otherwise.
Where if I'm in a college class and I call my English professor, "Dr. Smith," they will arrest me.
This post was edited on 7/1/24 at 10:05 am
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