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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A dentist is a doctor. A dentist is not a physician. A PhD is a doctor. A PhD is not a physician. In fact back in the ancient days scholars had higher prestige than physicians, who adopted the title doctor to increase their prestige. [/quote] Yes, OK, but do you agree that the word doctor floats between clinical authority and scholarly attainment, enabling situations where a dentist is a doctor in the credentialed sense while the same dentist is explicitly excluded from the category signified when we say a dentist is not a physician, just as a PhD is a doctor through the conferment of terminal academic mastery even though a PhD is not a physician, thereby underscoring that the term doctor operates less as a stable descriptor than as a linguistic corridor connecting multiple, sometimes competing, professional domains?[/quote]
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