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re: People with the title of “Dr.” who aren’t doctors
Posted on 1/26/24 at 8:22 am to Privateer 2007
Posted on 1/26/24 at 8:22 am to Privateer 2007
"Also, as others have stated PhD precluded Medical Doctors. So, tbh physicians stole that title."
Agree. I think you need to look up the definition of precluded.
Agree. I think you need to look up the definition of precluded.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 8:31 am to OlGrandad
quote:
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.
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".
Posted on 1/26/24 at 8:43 am to TulaneFan
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.
People with honorary doctoral degrees have not earned that right other than within the community of the University awarding the title.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 8:44 am to TulaneFan
Because college professors are for the most part self centered dickheads
Posted on 1/26/24 at 9:02 am to Saint Alfonzo
quote: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.
All of this "you're not a real doctor" rigamarole comes across as hillbilly stupidity.
Thank Aesculapius, Hippocrates and the rest of the real doctors.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 9:09 am to TulaneFan
Drug dealers should use the title
Only difference between them and real doctors, are the doctors legally pass drugs to drug abusers and give them death sentences with these powerful opiates.
Only difference between them and real doctors, are the doctors legally pass drugs to drug abusers and give them death sentences with these powerful opiates.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 9:11 am to SeeeeK
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.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 9:21 am to TulaneFan
I have a couple friends that have tried to get me to go to their "natural medicine doctor" for years. You couldn't pay me to go see that guy.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 10:02 am to CocomoLSU
I have a Phd...
Pot head degree
Pot head degree
Posted on 1/26/24 at 10:57 am to Dragula
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No need, you have done so in many threads
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.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 11:34 am to jeffsdad
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In the real world a Phd is higher than a doctorate.
A Ph.D is a doctorate, genius.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 11:45 am to cwil177
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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.
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.
This post was edited on 2/8/24 at 5:39 am
Posted on 1/26/24 at 11:55 am to Saint Alfonzo
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Doctor as a title for non-medical things is older than medical doctor. All of this "you're not a real doctor" rigamarole comes across as hillbilly stupidity.
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.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 12:16 pm to cwil177
quote:
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.
That's a pretty gross generalization lumping the quality of all NPs together.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 12:20 pm to VolunGator
Great wonderful. But why is it treated any different than a PhD? The work to obtain it is the same…why is it looked at in any different light?
Posted on 1/26/24 at 1:03 pm to Antonio Moss
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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.
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.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 1:20 pm to Dalosaqy
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Ph Ed.
There is no such thing.
He means EdD. I think someone found her thesis and it was pretty lacking
Posted on 1/26/24 at 1:26 pm to jeffsdad
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In the real world a Phd is higher than a doctorate
quote:
jeffsdad
We can always count on a retarded take from you, jeffsdad.
Posted on 1/26/24 at 2:54 pm to killercoconut
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I don’t ask people to call me doctor but many do out of respect for my degree. Many don’t and that’s okay too. How is that any different than a PhD with the exception of a dissertation defense? What has the PhD done that earns that title more than me?
I cannot believe the downvotes. You know more about the movement of the body than almost all physicians.
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