re: People with the title of “Dr.” who aren’t doctors

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I have posted this before.

Medical doctor friend told me he was going to put RD after his MD on his office door.

He wanted people know he was a real doctor.

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Quite pointless even in jest as the large majority of even the most ignorant of the population recognize MD as a physician and what they invision when they hear the term "Doctor".

The title is not exclusive to medical doctors and predates modern medicine. Anyone who has earned a recognized doctoral degree earns the right to the title of doctor.

People with honorary doctoral degrees have not earned that right other than within the community of the University awarding the title.

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All of this "you're not a real doctor" rigamarole comes across as hillbilly stupidity.

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You must be a psychiatrically oriented PhD. I for one am sick of all these ad hominen attacks as if you are in loco parentis. I am not in your cohort.

Thank Aesculapius, Hippocrates and the rest of the real doctors.

My wife (no pics) is a pharmacist and has her PharmD. She never goes by her Dr. title. In fact her hospital has the pharmacists go by their first names even though they all have doctorates. She doesn't mind and when I jokingly call her Dr she doesn't care for it.

I have a Phd...

Pot head degree

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No need, you have done so in many threads

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You may be confusing me with someone else, because I rarely post on the OT. That said, people in general are woefully unaware of this whole NP quality issue. If people were aware that their NP likely has less clinical training hours than a pet smart groomer (500 compared to 800), and completed their degree online (vast majority of programs), they would be more wary of the non physician care they or their family receive.

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You may be confusing me with someone else, because I rarely post on the OT. That said, people in general are woefully unaware of this whole NP quality issue. If people were aware that their NP likely has less clinical training hours than a pet smart groomer (500 compared to 800), and completed their degree online (vast majority of programs), they would be more wary of the non physician care they or their family receive.

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Maybe so, but there is a guy who rarely posts here and when he does it seems to only be in Medical threads. He goes off on RNs, NP, PA, CRNA on how they are ignorant, uneducated and a danger to patients as if they killed his entire family. .

This poster bleeds his vagina all over the thread then disappears until the next medical topic.

Opinions aside, can you really lump all NP/PA into one Box? I'd hardly compare compare the capability of a family practice NP that works at CVS to the NP that covers a busy ICU at night, or Neurosurgery coverage? Like all medical staff, there are good and bad.

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That said, people in general are woefully unaware of this whole NP quality issue. If people were aware that their NP likely has less clinical training hours than a pet smart groomer (500 compared to 800), and completed their degree online (vast majority of programs), they would be more wary of the non physician care they or their family receive.

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That's a pretty gross generalization lumping the quality of all NPs together.

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True. But anyone, even MDs, who insist that people refer to them as "doctor" are insufferable douchebags. I

have a doctorate, call me whatever you want.

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I agree with all of this. Outside of professional environments, academic or otherwise, it’s kind of tacky to insist on being called doctor. It’s not something I would do.

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In the real world a Phd is higher than a doctorate

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jeffsdad

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We can always count on a retarded take from you, jeffsdad.