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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a physician. I think the term doctor should be used for anyone who earns the doctorate in the right context. I don’t know any physicians who use it socially. When I go to classes for other topics I don’t introduce myself as Dr. Larla.

I also don’t like when people try to address me by my first name in a medical setting. It almost always only happens to women doctors, and is incredibly disrespectful to the number of years of training in which we were working incredibly long hours, dealing with lots of death, sadness, illnesses, exams after exams. We earn the title doctor and we deserve to use it. I work with kids and I insist they use it (they can call me Dr Thomas, Dr Tommy, Dr T) just as I insist my staff to use the title in the office. And honestly as a woman, people will assume you’re a nurse if you don’t make it clear you are a doc. [/quote]

I hear you, and I am sensitive to the gender concerns.
If you worked with adults, would you also call them Mr/Miss and/or Dr if they had those titles? 
I have a doctorate in the social sciences. I have clients (non medical). Should I be insisting I call them John and they call me Dr. Fox?[/quote]

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