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re: Non M.D.referring to themselves as “doctor”
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:11 am to FlowMaster
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:11 am to FlowMaster
I have a Juris Doctorate and it's very funny to call myself a doctor to my friends who are in med school but have yet to obtain their MD, so I'll continue calling myself a doctor in those situations.
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Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:14 am to FlowMaster
I’ll take “simps who don’t know the difference between titles and occupations” for $500, Alex.
Next you can start a thread about people who call themselves “Captain”, but don’t drive a boat.
Next you can start a thread about people who call themselves “Captain”, but don’t drive a boat.
This post was edited on 12/7/22 at 8:15 am
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:14 am to FlowMaster
The only Ph.Ds calling themselves "doctor" on a regular basis are the ones in academia.
Ph.Ds in the real world, don't really care.
Ph.Ds in the real world, don't really care.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:15 am to FlowMaster
No bullshite. There are folks around here that have never been to college, but demand that people call them "doctor" because of a stature in their religious institution or their political agenda. They have no credentials of a PhD, MD/DO...or even a JD.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:34 am to FlowMaster
Lol. A lot of psychology and chemistry PhD's putting downvote work in this thread.
Yall mad you got snookered into 100k in loans to end up with a lower paying job than BA or nongrads.
And to top it off, nobody even really calls you doctor.
Yall mad you got snookered into 100k in loans to end up with a lower paying job than BA or nongrads.
And to top it off, nobody even really calls you doctor.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:37 am to Giantkiller
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ol. A lot of psychology and chemistry PhD's putting downvote work in this thread.
Yall mad you got snookered into 100k in loans to end up with a lower paying job than BA or nongrads.
And to top it off, nobody even really calls you doctor.
I can tell you that the PhDs in Chemistry where I work are making a lot more than nearly all BA or Non-Grads.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:38 am to VolunGator
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Ph.D is the single most difficult and prestigious degree.
Probably.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:38 am to FreddieMac
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Depends on the setting, but for the most part only use DR in a professional setting. Any other time just introduce yourself as your name.
This
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:40 am to udtiger
I prefer to use Dr. LazloHollyfeld, Esq. stupid MDs and PhDs can’t do that.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:42 am to FlowMaster
I have my Masters in Education, and I plan to get my Doctorate just so people can call me “Doc”, no other reason.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:46 am to HangmanPage1
I enjoy emphasizing the Mr (or Ms) when talking to them
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:46 am to FlowMaster
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Non M.D.referring to themselves as “doctor”
It's almost always those that work in academia. I can't tell you how many times I was corrected by teachers my first year of college for calling them Mr. versus Dr.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:47 am to FlowMaster
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Only M.D.’s should be allowed to call themselves “doctor”.
OP is dumb as hell.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:50 am to Areddishfish
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It's almost always those that work in academia. I can't tell you how many times I was corrected by teachers my first year of college for calling them Mr. versus Dr.
Well, yeah. It's an academic title and that's a professional academic setting. It's either Doctor So and So or Professor So and So.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:51 am to FlowMaster
quote:Worse yet are all the doctorates that don't require even anything like the academic and intellectual rigor of a Ph.D. or M.D. Degrees like Au.D. (audiology) and Ed.D. (education) are not in the same league. And any lawyer (J.D. degree) calling himself "doctor" is guaranteed to be a douchebag and likely to be an idiot and/or a crook.
Ph.D’s are a dime a dozen. Only M.D.’s should be allowed to call themselves “doctor”.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:55 am to FlowMaster
Embarrassing as frick
Same as nurse practitioners and physical therapists wearing a long white coat
Everybody wants to be called a doctor but nobody wants to spend continuous hours in a library during the best years of their lives so they can get a degree that earns them to opportunity to be an indentured servant for half a decade and treated like dirt.
I hate the fact that a white coat is like a prestigious symbol.
The white coat came about centuries ago. Doctors would dress up for work. They entered the hospital and would grab a white coat off the rack. Get to work. And get blood and shite and piss all over it caring for their patients. And at the end of the day take it off and chuck it in a bucket of bleach water along with all the other white coats from the other doctors. And it would get taken to the wash.
It was essentially a smock. A reminder you have to get your hands dirty. You have to roll up your sleeves and do hard work. THAT is the essence of the white coat.
Now people treat it like a robe of royalty. It’s stupid.
Same as nurse practitioners and physical therapists wearing a long white coat
Everybody wants to be called a doctor but nobody wants to spend continuous hours in a library during the best years of their lives so they can get a degree that earns them to opportunity to be an indentured servant for half a decade and treated like dirt.
I hate the fact that a white coat is like a prestigious symbol.
The white coat came about centuries ago. Doctors would dress up for work. They entered the hospital and would grab a white coat off the rack. Get to work. And get blood and shite and piss all over it caring for their patients. And at the end of the day take it off and chuck it in a bucket of bleach water along with all the other white coats from the other doctors. And it would get taken to the wash.
It was essentially a smock. A reminder you have to get your hands dirty. You have to roll up your sleeves and do hard work. THAT is the essence of the white coat.
Now people treat it like a robe of royalty. It’s stupid.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:58 am to FlowMaster
A lawyer can call himself “Dr.” but a medical doctor can’t end his name with “Esquire.” Think about that for a minute.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 9:02 am to tigerinthebueche
quote:Nobody on the planet has ever driven a boat.
Next you can start a thread about people who call themselves “Captain”, but don’t drive a boat.
Just like you can’t drive a plane.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 9:03 am to FlowMaster
My chiro won't let anybody call him Doctor. Good on him.
My daughter is a PhD. I suppose I could prank her by calling her doctor. In classes when she teaches students might call her Doctor there. Or not.
My daughter is a PhD. I suppose I could prank her by calling her doctor. In classes when she teaches students might call her Doctor there. Or not.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 9:50 am to FlowMaster
Non M.D.referring to themselves as “doctor”
I work with nurses who do that shite. It's frickin' dumb. They get these utterly useless online Ph.D's and then want people to call the Doctor.
I work with nurses who do that shite. It's frickin' dumb. They get these utterly useless online Ph.D's and then want people to call the Doctor.
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