Surgeons use 'Mr' rather than 'Dr' because traditionally you did an apprenticeship to become a surgeon rather than studied medicine at university. Obviously that has now changed, but it's just a hang-on from yesteryear.
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Surgeons use 'Mr' rather than 'Dr' because traditionally you did an apprenticeship to become a surgeon rather than studied medicine at university. Obviously that has now changed, but it's just a hang-on from yesteryear.
Yeah, dentists are highly trained health professionals, I can't see a good reason why they shouldn't also be called doctors. We've already got one lot of not-proper-doctors, what's difference is another group
Surgeons use the title Mr as homage to the barber shop surgeons of old. It was those barber shop surgeons who were refused the honorary title of doctor and admission into the medical fraternity. You study for six years to become a doctor, then another 4 years to become a Mr again... and also pay £1400 for the privilege and an annual subscription for the pleasure.
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Well it could matter I guess if you had booked a flight using the name Dr. xxx and an emergency illness occurred during the flight (or some other improbable scenario).
As the flight attendants called out for a Doctor you steam to the front and say "open wide"
Yea and your phd in psychology would also be of great benefit.
The doctor title used by medics and dentists is and has been honourary, nothing new about that, neither of them hold doctorates. Its is just public perception.
Yeah, dentists are highly trained health professionals, I can't see a good reason why they shouldn't also be called doctors. We've already got one lot of not-proper-doctors, what's difference is another group
They don't tend to cause too much confusion in the USA.
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Dr Smith
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Yeah I'll go and see him for my chest infection...
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Asa didnt say it was wrong.
Asa said it was wrong to use it misleading in advertising.
I read the asa ruling, big difference in what ou are reporting and what the said, the ad has to change, not his use of the title.
Wrong subject, but that is my point exactly.
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Your point was dentists who actually do annual cpr training might be of no use in an emergency.
I was sarcastically suggesting that actually people with phds who have evry right to call themselves doctor are potentially of little to no use.
So it isnt your point, it negates your point, when your point was seeing doctor listed might make for a bad situation in an emergency.
Well that's right, the ad now has to explain in detail "the similarities and differences between the practitioner's qualifications and medical qualifications", a dentist doesn't have to stop using the term Doctor.
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No, my point is that neither a PhD Doctor nor a Dental Doctor may be of any specific use when called upon in an emergency for which a medical doctor is required still stands, I think, edit to add: and was more of a point about what the public's perception of what a doctor is.
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I figure you are wrong, in an emergency initailly a paramedic is required, or certainly that who is sent, doctor come along after, and deal with followup and cardiac events, or hospital based events.
Paramedics tend to be sent to emergencies as thats what hey aretrained for, very detailed and very specific training, and they are damn good at what they do.
If you accept a flight upgrade that has blatantly been given to you because the airline wrongly assumed from your title that you were a medic then you should have a word with yourself.
Aside from that the title Dr isn't exclusively linked to medicine and never has been. The proper use is for holders of a doctorate. Everyone else who uses it is a result of professional vanity/status anxiety.
Aside from that the title Dr isn't exclusively linked to medicine and never has been. The proper use is for holders of a doctorate. Everyone else who uses it is a result of professional vanity/status anxiety.
And ironically I feel vain when using it. I put it on for car insurance and not much else atm.
You can't be serious, it's a flight upgrade not a nobel prize.
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Consultants do as well, iirc.
I'm probably missing something, but... What
GPs call themselves doctors because they are doctors...Only surgeons become 'Mr'. Medical consultants are 'Dr's.
Again, what...? So medical doctors use the title 'Dr' because of professional vanity/status anxiety?? Sod all the 'courtesy' business, how about the fact that physicians have been called 'doctors' historically for hundreds of years?
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