You know your lecturer's a bit of a tool when she insists you address her as "Doctor".
Yeah, I'm all for recognising someone's achievement, but using your title in a patronising way doesn't really help build rapport with the class, or for that matter, some form of mutual respect.Although I agree that 'insisting' is lame, i'm sure if you'd spent however much time and money doing your PhD you wouldn't want to be called Mister or Miss either...
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You know your lecturer's a bit of a tool when she insists you address her as "Doctor".
Yeah, I'm all for recognising someone's achievement, but using your title in a patronising way doesn't really help build rapport with the class, or for that matter, some form of mutual respect.
so....you're taking that class with it's associated costs, monetary, time management and personal, so you can continue to be addressed as "Mr" ?
I thought the thing with surgeons had something to do with them wanting to differentiate themselves from 'normal' doctors, so they dropped the title?The Orthopedic Surgeon who I had to get a referral from my "Doctor" before I could get an appointment with was a "Mister", and my "Doctor" referred to him as "Mister" as though he (the Ortho) out ranked him, or whatever they call it under the hippocratic oath.
I call my doctor "Richard" or "mate" but never "Doctor" (which he is according to the bit of paper on the wall, but then again, so was the ortho) so I'm confused.
You're a Mister with no qualifications, then you go to med school to become a doctor so you can be adressed as "Doctor", and then you go to school again to get some more letters after your name (MD, FRACS) and you become a Mister again?
What happens next, do you get an extra letter in front of the rest Fred Smith. Y MD FRACS, to be adressed formally as "Smithy" without the "Doctor" or "Mister"?
Titles are irrelevant to me and, more importantly, irrelevant to the majority of the rest of the world.so....you're taking that class with it's associated costs, monetary, time management and personal, so you can continue to be addressed as "Mr" ?
I thought the thing with surgeons had something to do with them wanting to differentiate themselves from 'normal' doctors, so they dropped the title?
Regardless, MDs aren't necessarily real doctors anyway /canofworms.
You know your lecturer's a bit of a tool when she insists you address her as "Doctor".
The Orthopedic Surgeon who I had to get a referral from my "Doctor" before I could get an appointment with was a "Mister", and my "Doctor" referred to him as "Mister" as though he (the Ortho) out ranked him, or whatever they call it under the hippocratic oath.
I call my doctor "Richard" or "mate" but never "Doctor" (which he is according to the bit of paper on the wall, but then again, so was the ortho) so I'm confused.
You're a Mister with no qualifications, then you go to med school to become a doctor so you can be adressed as "Doctor", and then you go to school again to get some more letters after your name (MD, FRACS) and you become a Mister again?
What happens next, do you get an extra letter in front of the rest Fred Smith. Y MD FRACS, to be adressed formally as "Smithy" without the "Doctor" or "Mister"?
The use of the Dr title isn't really regulated in Aust. A MBBS is two bachelors, not a doctorate in the strict scheme of things, but tradition dictates that the Dr title be used. A specialist I once saw also had Mr on his cards and it got me wondering too.
you broke it *before* you rode it? that takes talent....![]()
It's long-standing medical tradition in the UK to use Mr. for surgeons.
Meh, depends how much of history/tradition you want to ignore. Not implying you're ignorant, merely trying to comment on the relevance of historical practice.
We had a lecturer like that once at uni. He started the first lecture by introducing himself with "I am Dr blah blah, also known as The Asshole". When someone called him Mr he corrected them.
the service centre claim it's water-damaged despite it never having been immersed in water at all. They claim that it can be caused by humidity but I'm refusing to stand for that as humidity or sweat should be accepted as part of it's natural operating environment and as such it should be designed to be a lot more water resistant.