Are you a "doc"?

[Scotttyd]

3) Another of my pet peeves is luxury cars with MD plates on them. For some reason, they tend to get keyed… wonder why?

There was a lexus with plates "I Stent" on them where I used to work - actually saw a nice long key mark on it - sucks.

 

[doctormike]

There was a lexus with plates "I Stent" on them where I used to work - actually saw a nice long key mark on it - sucks.

Maybe I'll try to get "SNOT-DOC" and put it on my 120,000 mile Prius...

 

[boulderjohn]

My the best teacher I ever had whilst I was at University was Professor Roy Goode at Oxford, and he never attended University as a student at all much less held any advanced degrees. The only degrees he possessed were honorary ones. But he was an extraordinarily bright and gifted man.

One of the greatest Shakespearean scholars of all time (not bad with Chaucer, either) was George Lyman Kittredge, who taught at Yale. He lacked that nice Ph.D himself. The story goes that some pressure was put on him to get a Ph.D, and he asked, "Who would test me?"

I guess that as the end of it.

 

[lmorin]

.............
It is convention at universities (at least in North America) to refer to an instructor as "Professor" regardless of whether the instructor has a PhD or not. Further, "Professor" is seen to be more prestigious than "Doctor." Finally, if one is unsure (in a university setting) whether or not a non-Professor has a PhD one is to err on the side of caution and refer to them as "Doctor." ...................

Perhaps you are right about the convention. However, when I was an undergrad at one university, I and my classmates addressed our professors of physiological psychology and biology as "Doctor." Later, when I was a PhD faculty member in a similar department at a university that placed less emphasis on graduate education, the undergrads addressed me and my colleagues as "Professor." Now, I conduct a research program in a medical school department where the default form of address is "Doctor." This is also used by both graduate and undergraduate students. Outside of my immediate setting, I never refer to myself as "Professor" or "Doctor."

My wife has a Juris Doctor degree, practiced law for 20 yrs and always finds it amusing that she can consider herself a legitimate doctor. Even moreso now that she is a faculty member in a theater department where she does and teaches costume design and where she is called, "Professor."

 

[HBO MD]

We would joke that you could always tell when you had the hotel room next to an MD's ; because you could hear him call out his own name during ämore".
I'm a Hyperbaric and Critical Care Doc,( artifical life support for burns, trauma, surgery and cardiac surgery).

 

[diver 85]

optometrist here-----but not on this board........20/20 Tiger on my home site.......

 

[idocsteve]

optometrist here-----but not on this board........20/20 Tiger on my home site.......

It must be very rewarding to deliver those babies.

:cool2:

 

[AndyNZ]

I've got a PhD in mechatronics that involved a bizarre mix of population genetics theory and biscuit cutting machinery. Go figure.

 

[adurso]

I only use my title when it will cause the maximum annoyance....PhD in Education with a cognate in Urban Management....

For those asking what kind of fire department has PhDs on board; the police department I retired from had four of us with doctorates of various stripes...

 

[Dockmaster]

My last name is Dock. Dockmaster was a college nickname that seamed to work for scuba since I spend a lot of time helping new divers sort out their gear on the shore/dock.