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Posted on 9/16/22 at 8:57 am to Dragula
My Chiropractor is a god, don't care what he calls himself.
Posted on 9/16/22 at 8:58 am to TeaParty
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However you left one out that always comes to mind. DERMATOLOGIST.
Dermatologists are medical doctors....people don't say they went to the Skin Doctor
Posted on 9/16/22 at 8:58 am to Weekend Warrior79
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kept insisting I refer to him as Dr
Ask him if there's an emergency if you should still call 911.
Posted on 9/16/22 at 8:59 am to CAT
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If you're definition of "doctor" equals drug prescriptions/surgery then sure, not a doctor. Guess Doctors of PT aren't "real" doctors either.
I could tell the story of my Pops again about how if he had listened to the urgings of his "doctor" he would have had a life changing back surgery that likely would have left him disabled. He went to a chiropractor two days before his scheduled surgery. He canceled the surgery the next day. It was nearly 40 years before he ever had a back surgery, and it was for a bone spur and took all of 15 minutes. He also worked into his 60s and retired on his own terms.
Posted on 9/16/22 at 8:59 am to Jizzy08
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Dermatologist is an MD who probably finished at the top of their medical school class
This!!
It's the coveted field for a medical doctor
Posted on 9/16/22 at 8:59 am to Dragula
DOs and chiros are
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:01 am to Parrish
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DNPs <-- nurses that want to confuse people by calling themselves doctor
Horrible take... 95% of DNPs are in senior level administration which is required at that level. I've never heard a single one of them refer to themselves as "Dr." in 30yrs and in 5 different states.
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:01 am to Ingeniero
Where do Honorary Doctorates fit?
Dr. Mike Tyson
Dr. Taylor Swift
Dr. Kanye West
Dr. Mike Tyson
Dr. Taylor Swift
Dr. Kanye West
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:01 am to Dragula
Neither, doctor is a level of education, a lot of people incorrectly believe that it's a job title. The people that you are thinking should be called doctors are actually physicians.
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:02 am to Dragula
People who are pissy about the term “Doctor” don’t have any idea what it means. Medical doctors are the phony ones, not the other way around. Long before anyone would apply the term to someone who practices medicine, “Doctor” was an honorific for people who completed advanced studies usually in humanities. The frauds, who were ridiculed, were the medical practitioners who started using the term.
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:03 am to Ingeniero
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PhDs outside an educational setting
No one should be called "doctor" outside of their professional setting, that's just absurd thing to expect
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:04 am to Weekend Warrior79
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I'll refer to my physical therapist as Dr before I refer to my chiro as Dr.
And they actually do have a doctorate degree and even have an anatomy class with a cadaver. PTs actually learn much of the same stuff but the focus is on mobility/diagnostics instead of pathology/diagnostics.
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:04 am to Jizzy08
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Dermatologist is an MD who probably finished at the top of their medical school class
There is a very small partial truth that has snowballed into gospel over the years.
This post was edited on 9/16/22 at 9:30 am
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:04 am to Ingeniero
Where would you rank Witch Doctor? Their craft is probably more rare than the sub sub specialized MD and they never demand to be called Doctor.
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:07 am to Strannix
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Lol not some clown on the School Board with a doctorate in letters.
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:07 am to tgrbaitn08
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This!!
It's the coveted field for a medical doctor
Many in the field beg to differ.
My take is ED physicians... Great pay, zero call, no clinic and office drama and very rewarding/challenging.
This post was edited on 9/16/22 at 9:09 am
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:07 am to Ingeniero
I have never known a JD that called themselves doctor. In an educational setting it's "professor" - never doctor. Not even LLMs call themselves doctor.
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:08 am to Ingeniero
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MDs, including opthalmologists
I would hope so being that an ophthalmologist is a medical degree specialty.
Posted on 9/16/22 at 9:09 am to Dragula
Doctor is derived from the Latin verb “docere,” meaning to teach, or a scholar. So technically professors and the like have a better pure claim to be called “Doctor”. But I’m not calling them a doctor outside of an academic setting
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