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[quote=Anonymous]I'm slightly amused this thread is still going...but it's DCUM. I will share this. There are lots of MDs (well, equivalent degree from a different country) in my family. Both my parents, my first cousin, and my grandfather. When I received my PhD, my grandfather said, "I'm so proud to finally have a [i]real[/i] doctor in the family." And some very interesting reading on the origins and use of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(title) TL;DR, ontologically, PhDs are, in fact, the [i]real[/i] doctors. American MDs are insecure, apparently, and need to cull the title for themselves. -- PhD who rarely uses Dr LastName, especially because I start looking around for one of my parents when I hear it[/quote]
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