Doctors that aren't doctors. Dr. that are not Dr.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

I think the word doctor should be a title preserved for those that provide healthcare to people. If you can diagnose or prescribe or write a note for someone that's ill you're a doctor. Otherwise you are not a doctor and should not be allowed put that title before your name.

Who the fuck made Dr. Ian Paisley happen? There's other examples too btw...

Archeron

Doctor Bunsen.

PTH2009

Yeah having a person with a doctorate in sound engineering or English will not be any help if ur having a massive heart attack in front of them

They should rename Doctorate of non medical subjects to something else

dxhound2005

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I think the word doctor should be a title preserved for those that provide healthcare to people. If you can diagnose or prescribe or write a note for someone that's ill you're a doctor. Otherwise you are not a doctor and should not be allowed put that title before your name.

Who the fuck made Dr. Ian Paisley happen? There's other examples too btw...

You can't go round changing the English language like that.

Tom Mann Centuria

And surgical consultants are Misters, not doctors. The zany scamps.

WesternZulu

The title was originally dedicated to those who had obtained a Doctor of Philosophy.

Therefore, all them medical doctors are really only fake doctors!

PM me nudes

PTH2009 wrote: »

Yeah having a person with a doctorate in sound engineering or English will not be any help if ur having a massive heart attack in front of them

They should rename Doctorate of non medical subjects to something else

The term Doctor was originally exclusively for people that had a doctorate degree, it was later adopted by medical doctors as it was deemed a title of honour and respect.

Sarn

Anyone with a doctorate is correctly called a doctor. It spread to medical practitioners and is used as a courtesy title. Recently vets in Ireland also use the title doctor.

endacl

PTH2009 wrote: »

Yeah having a person with a doctorate in sound engineering or English will not be any help if ur having a massive heart attack in front of them

Doctor of medicine would be fuqall use trying to balance the sound between the delay towers in Slane on a windy day.

Raheem Euro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD52OlkKfNs

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I think the word doctor should be a title preserved for those that provide healthcare to people. If you can diagnose or prescribe or write a note for someone that's ill you're a doctor. Otherwise you are not a doctor and should not be allowed put that title before your name.

Who the fuck made Dr. Ian Paisley happen? There's other examples too btw...

A non doctor with Dr in front of their name will have a degree, masters and a doctorate. A medical doctor just has a degree. Maybe the medical doctor should change their name to just their specific job e.g. GP. It would be easier that way and people would not think they had a doctorate and would know what type of medical doctor they were. Or would this not be ok with you?

KevRossi

PM me nudes wrote: »

The term Doctor was originally exclusively for people that had a doctorate degree, it was later adopted by medical doctors as it was deemed a title of honour and respect.

^ Seems some people here are avid readers of the 'I bet you didn't know that.....' thread.

;-)

i71jskz5xu42pb

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Who the fuck made Dr. Ian Paisley happen?

Bob Jones University, honoury doctorate i.e. Micky Mouse doctorate.

kal7

Chiropractors who use the title Dr. Now that is confusing

I don't mind dr of say chemistry etc as they don't try to be medical

PM me nudes

KevRossi wrote: »

^ Seems some people here are avid readers of the 'I bet you didn't know that.....' thread.

;-)

No, I'm doing a PhD :pac:

magentis

endacl wrote: »

Doctor of medicine would be fuqall use trying to balance the sound between the delay towers in Slane on a windy day.

Must have been a medical doctor doing it for GNR last year.

JohnnyFlash

Dr. Mantis Toboggan

Squatter

I'm always puzzled when my dentist's receptionist answers the phone with the words "Doctor XXXXX's surgery"

I assume that "Doctor" is an honourary title that he has awarded himself. Or are dentists entitled to call themselves doctor?

PM me nudes

Also, it's Dr not Dr. this side of the Atlantic

goose2005

WesternZulu wrote: »

The title was originally dedicated to those who had obtained a Doctor of Philosophy.

Therefore, all them medical doctors are really only fake doctors!

No, the original doctorates were theology, law and medicine. Doctor of Philosophy emerged in the mid-17th century.

Just leaving this here...

https://mobile.twitter.com/kennedysinger?lang=en

FishOnABike

Someone with a NFQ level 10 qualification is a doctor and, in gaining their qualification, has made a significant original contribution to the field of knowledge in their area.

Perhaps medical practitioners should differentiate themselves by using the M.D. suffix

dxhound2005

Squatter wrote: »

I'm always puzzled when my dentist's receptionist answers the phone with the words "Doctor XXXXX's surgery"

I assume that "Doctor" is an honourary title that he has awarded himself. Or are dentists entitled to call themselves doctor?

I wonder what a dictionary would say.

KERSPLAT!

Raheem Euro wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD52OlkKfNs

What a show! Good aul Jed.

troyzer

There are different types of doctorates such as a DPhil, PhD, JD, DDS and of course an MD.

They're all doctors. Saying that only MDs should be called doctors is bizarre.

It should be noted that the last three are called professional doctorates which means they require no research so if anything it should be the MDs which drop the doctor label. Lawyers have never used theirs even though they're just as entitled.

dr. bollocko?

Ipso

Dr Oz.

Panthro

Exactly what kind of doctor was Dr Who?

Panthro

And while I'm here, Dr Dre.
What's his deal?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

KevRossi wrote: »

^ Seems some people here are avid readers of the 'I bet you didn't know that.....' thread.

;-)

Or some of us have Doctorates.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Phoebe had it right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYn2eWPPUfI

lvoc

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

And surgical consultants are Misters, not doctors. The zany scamps.

Nowadays these also come in the female variety...
(Ms/Miss)

AtomicHorror

Panthro wrote: »

Exactly what kind of doctor was Dr Who?

Everything, as the Doctor has stated many times.

Kaison Whispering Warlock wrote: »

Or some of us have Doctorates.

Yep. It's the honorary ones you have to watch out for.

dxhound2005

I went to the doctor a few times recently. He told me I had hypocondria. I said you're probably right, I have had everything else.

fritzelly

troyzer wrote: »

There are different types of doctorates such as a DPhil, PhD, JD, DDS and of course an MD.

I just read Dr Phil

Sarn wrote: »

Anyone with a doctorate is correctly called a doctor. It spread to medical practitioners and is used as a courtesy title. Recently vets in Ireland also use the title doctor.

Pretty much screwed if on an airplane and someone shouts is there a doctor on board - psycho analysed, castrated...before someone realises you mean a medical doctor.

dr.fuzzenstein

Panthro wrote: »

Exactly what kind of doctor was Dr Who?

Trust me, I'm the doctor.

pleas advice

DR Congo was another one

Mad_maxx

kal7 wrote: »

Chiropractors who use the title Dr. Now that is confusing

I don't mind dr of say chemistry etc as they don't try to be medical

A chiropractor has as much legitimacy calling themselves a doctor as a butcher or a barber ( in this country)

Doc07

FishOnABike wrote: »

Someone with a NFQ level 10 qualification is a doctor and, in gaining their qualification, has made a significant original contribution to the field of knowledge in their area.

Perhaps medical practitioners should differentiate themselves by using the M.D. suffix

And to add more confusion, in Ireland and UK, if you already have an undergraduate medical degree and are called Dr you can do a research Doctorate in Medicine also called an MD which is NFQ level 10 like a PhD.

Still no guarantee they will be any use on a plane if someone faints.

Respectfully yours

Dr DOC MD

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Mad_maxx wrote: »

A chiropractor has as much legitimacy calling themselves a doctor as a butcher or a barber ( in this country)

Unless they earned a legitimate doctorate in something else.

SEPT 23 1989

Dr Alban

riffmongous

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Dr Alban

It's his life in fairness

SEPT 23 1989

riffmongous wrote: »

It's his life in fairness

Stop fighting me

Irish Praetorian

I believe the Latin root of the word 'Doctor' is 'Docere' meaning, to teach or instruct, therefore all our teachers should be doctors

Ficheall

Dr Ficheall is here to woefully ineptly answer any medical questions you may have.

ProfessorPlum

FishOnABike wrote: »

Someone with a NFQ level 10 qualification is a doctor and, in gaining their qualification, has made a significant original contribution to the field of knowledge in their area.

Perhaps medical practitioners should differentiate themselves by using the M.D. suffix

Except that most doctors on this side of the pond don’t have an MD. More confusion!

Deleted User wrote: »

A non doctor with Dr in front of their name will have a degree, masters and a doctorate. A medical doctor just has a degree. Maybe the medical doctor should change their name to just their specific job e.g. GP. It would be easier that way and people would not think they had a doctorate and would know what type of medical doctor they were. Or would this not be ok with you?

Most medical doctors will have 3 degrees. At least. And any who are fully trained (ie to consultant level) will have further postgraduate degrees, diplomas, and also may have a doctorate. Becomes cumbersome to insist on all of them being used when addressing them.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

A fair few 'doctors' have posted on this thread already lol. Yep. Guarantee none of them are actual doctors that involve healthcare.

There should be a distinction. And 95% of people know doctors as someone who will look after you if sick. Otherwise putting a Dr before your name is a fake title.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

FishOnABike wrote: »

Someone with a NFQ level 10 qualification is a doctor and, in gaining their qualification, has made a significant original contribution to the field of knowledge in their area.

Perhaps medical practitioners should differentiate themselves by using the M.D. suffix

So someone who "has made a significant original contribution to the field of knowledge in their area." They are worth being called a doctor?

Only people that deserve the title of doctor is a GP.

endacl

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

So someone who "has made a significant original contribution to the field of knowledge in their area." They are worth being called a doctor?

Only people that deserve the title of doctor is a GP.

Grand. Don’t use the title so.

How’s the phd in knickertwisting coming along?

mikhail

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

There should be a distinction. And 95% of people know doctors as someone who will look after you if sick. Otherwise putting a Dr before your name is a fake title.

Given several posts in this thread have clearly explained why that's a stupid position, and given that you've just ignored them and restated your position, and given your ridiculous username, I'm going to assume you're a troll.

That's a word we used to use exclusively for mythical Norwegian monsters, but in the modern meaning is also used to discribe muppets on the internet. Does that confuse you too?

biko