To sign up at the surgery as ‘Dr’

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I got my PhD two months ago, moved to a new place and signed up to a new doctor’s surgery and dental practice.

Filling in the forms, I got a bit carried away with my new title and ticked the ‘dr’ box! I’ve been doing it a lot lately for silly little things partly ‘cause I’m just happy to have finished and passed my degree and also because I relish that I am no longer defined by my marital status.

But, I now need to visit the surgery and I feel like an idiot. The form also had occupation so the doctor will know I’m not a medical doctor. Is he/she going to think I am a total prat for using Dr outside my work and at the doctor’s surgery of all places? Cringe

@ErrolTheDragon

We're all free to leave when we've said what we want to say, you know.

Thank you for this.

Good summary.

I'm tempted to add, don't make assertions of serious corruption against a sector characterised by carefully examining evidence, without anticipating you'll be asked to present some evidence.

@Janegrey333

They didn't answer....

Don’t you mean she or he?

I didn't want to assume gender......

I have a PhD equivalent qualification (a Doctorate), and I sometimes use my title in everyday use depending on how I feel! Why not, it represents the best part of 10 years' worth of seriously hard graft. I'm proud of it

@ErrolTheDragon

Good summary.

I'm tempted to add, don't make assertions of serious corruption against a sector characterised by carefully examining evidence, without anticipating you'll be asked to present some evidence.

Haha yes!

Anyway doctors of philosophy are the actual doctors. Bachelors of medicine are the impostors (as they don't have doctorates), not the other way round.

Calling yourself Dr by title is like telling people ‘I’m a doctor’ and of course their first thought is medical doctor

Only if they're not very educated themselves.

I take the greatest delight in my well earned title! My spouse derives enormous guffaws of delight when he/I get to correct the sing song phone voices “is it Miss or Ms or Mrs?” People with “Its Dr”. 🤣

I do this too - usually more so if I'm pissed with the person or company on the other end. 😂

@Belladonna12

Anyway doctors of philosophy are the actual doctors. Bachelors of medicine are the impostors (as they don't have doctorates), not the other way round.

Doctor in its current usage as a healer has been around for centuries, so 'imposter' is a little harsh. I don't think there would be much enthusiasm from any side to reverting to leech or the wonderful chaucerian 'Bacheler or Doctour of Fisyk'... although that's definitely got a ring to it.

www.etymonline.com/word/Doctor

@LouJ85

I take the greatest delight in my well earned title! My spouse derives enormous guffaws of delight when he/I get to correct the sing song phone voices “is it Miss or Ms or Mrs?” People with “Its Dr”. 🤣

I do this too - usually more so if I'm pissed with the person or company on the other end. 😂

The person on the other end of the phone probably eye rolls at you. Or thinks you sound like a bit of a twat. I would anyway.

@Tenyearsgone

That makes me sad for you.

Well the anti-intellectualism on this thread is eye-opening and helps explain the current parlous state of the world, that's for sure.

The person on the other end of the phone probably eye rolls at you. Or thinks you sound like a bit of a twat. I would anyway.

Don't worry. I suspect the feeling is mutual.

@CastleOfDoom

I take the greatest delight in my well earned title! My spouse derives enormous guffaws of delight when he/I get to correct the sing song phone voices “is it Miss or Ms or Mrs?” People with “Its Dr”. 🤣

I'd love to be able to do that 😂

It's fun 😂

The person on the other end of the phone probably eye rolls at you. Or thinks you sound like a bit of a twat. I would anyway

So why not eyeroll at women who insist on being addressed as Mrs and change their name to their husbands.

After all it’s a declaration that they have reached the status of married woman, and their title defines that achievement.

No difference IMO between someone who uses MRS to advertise their marital status and someone who uses Dr to advertise the educational status.

@MilerVino

The person on the other end of the phone probably eye rolls at you. Or thinks you sound like a bit of a twat. I would anyway.

Don't worry. I suspect the feeling is mutual.

Indeed.

@bluebluezoo

The person on the other end of the phone probably eye rolls at you. Or thinks you sound like a bit of a twat. I would anyway

So why not eyeroll at women who insist on being addressed as Mrs and change their name to their husbands.

After all it’s a declaration that they have reached the status of married woman, and their title defines that achievement.

No difference IMO between someone who uses MRS to advertise their marital status and someone who uses Dr to advertise the educational status.

Thank you for that! I was beginning to get a complex about being a "twat". I guarantee i'm probably a more educated twat than the person on the other end of the call though

@MilerVino

The person on the other end of the phone probably eye rolls at you. Or thinks you sound like a bit of a twat. I would anyway.

Don't worry. I suspect the feeling is mutual.

I don't tent to laugh at people doing their jobs and asking if I'm a Mrs , Miss or MS. I just say MS.

Although it's quite hard to pronouce MS 😂

@bluebluezoo

The person on the other end of the phone probably eye rolls at you. Or thinks you sound like a bit of a twat. I would anyway

So why not eyeroll at women who insist on being addressed as Mrs and change their name to their husbands.

After all it’s a declaration that they have reached the status of married woman, and their title defines that achievement.

No difference IMO between someone who uses MRS to advertise their marital status and someone who uses Dr to advertise the educational status.

Why on earth would anyone see marriage as an 'achievement' worthy of a special title in relation to women but not to men? (for the record, I use Mrs, more than Dr, but if I was 20 or 30 years younger I probably wouldn't )

@MilerVino

Well the anti-intellectualism on this thread is eye-opening and helps explain the current parlous state of the world, that's for sure.

It really does.

Interesting that it is anti-intellectualism combined with somewhat fanatic hero-worship of medical doctors.

I wonder if all the people saying that non-medical doctors should not use their titles because it’s pompous/cringey/inappropriate would include the people who developed the Covid vaccine amongst all the boastful academics who need taking down a peg or two?

I wonder if all the people saying that non-medical doctors should not use their titles because it’s pompous/cringey/inappropriate would include the people who developed the Covid vaccine amongst all the boastful academics who need taking down a peg or two?

Or perhaps the Clinical Psychologists who have supported many people through the significant mental health impact of Covid? Maybe they need to pipe down and drop the Dr title they've worked so hard for?

@MilerVino

Well the anti-intellectualism on this thread is eye-opening and helps explain the current parlous state of the world, that's for sure.

Yes, it certainly does.

@ErrolTheDragon

Good summary.

I'm tempted to add, don't make assertions of serious corruption against a sector characterised by carefully examining evidence, without anticipating you'll be asked to present some evidence.

Is précis not good enough for you?

I suggest you learn to differentiate between the quoted part and the unquoted part, incidentally.

Or perhaps the Clinical Psychologists who have supported many people through the significant mental health impact of Covid? Maybe they need to pipe down and drop the Dr title they've worked so hard for?

I wonder what people have been getting up to in lockdown. Maybe reading literature, from authors taught by people with 'useless' PhDs. Or maybe watching TV serials, created by more people trained in the useless creative arts.