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Josh Barro
@jbarro
Gets PhD, ends up hosting a podcast with Kate Willett. Clings to the honorific because it’s all he has in the world.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres 🛑
@xriskology
I do it because I worked unbelievably hard to get that honorific. I tell my students: having a PhD means only one thing: that you--statistically speaking--know more than almost anyone else in the world about one or two narrow topics (and that you worked hard to achieve that x.com/robertskmiles/…
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Josh Barro
@jbarro
Sorry, literally every person who goes by “Dr.” and isn’t a medical doctor is insufferable. None of you are the exception. Not one.
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Glucosameanie
@Hyaluronan1
I think the better rule is anyone who uses an honorific outside their professional context is insufferable. I'm Dr. to my students but no one else. I also hang around a lot of physicians and none of them go by Dr in their personal lives.
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Theron Corse
@TheronC
The term "doctor" has meant a scholar or a teacher going back to Roman times. The medical folks started using it when they wanted to glom on to our prestige to distinguish themselves from traditional healers. And I will always be Dr. Theron Corse, Historian.
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Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON*
@EsotericCD
You are right...except my mom ran NIMH's Mood and Personalities Disorders Research Branch during the late '80s and '90s and I never begrudged her "Dr." despite only having an MS and Ph.D in psychology. Perhaps I'm biased.
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Greg Packnett
@Triceratops235
I’m of the opinion that only PhD’s should get to call themselves doctor. If you didn’t have to add original scholarship to the world to earn the title, you shouldn’t get to use it. MDs, DOs, DDSs, and DVMs should stay down here with us JDs.
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Cliston Brown
@ClistonBrown
That’s because of your misunderstanding of the term, which is an academic title, not a medical one. A person who has earned the degree has every right to the honorific.
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Eric Nelson
@literaryeric
As long as we all agree that chiropractors and dentists are also not doctors, as valuable as they are, I am 100% into this.
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Matt Post
@mjpost
This is the correct view. Like a firearm, appropriate situations for brandishing it are few and far between and unlikely to be encountered in daily life.
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Peter J Wacks
@peterjwacks
Um. The first official recognition of Doctor being applied as a title to medical practitioners regardless of whether they held a doctoral degree was in 1838, when the Royal College of Physicians resolved that it would "regard in the same light, and address by the same
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