Re: Physician's title

Organized medicine has added "clarity" in confusing academic degrees with
occupations.
LG/Ph.D.

"Tim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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...And while we're being parochial...
please remember that the USA is one of the few countries that actually
awards an MD to medical doctors!
Historically in the U.K. and commonwealth countries ( historically...) A
medical degree required a double degree and accordingly a Bachelor of
medicine and a Bachelor of surgery is awarded...i.e. M.B, B.S. or M.B. ,
B.Ch. ( for Chiurgery I think :-) ). So in the U.K or Australia the

Vast

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majority of "Doctors" who practice Medicine ( Including specialists) do

not

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have an "M.D."
Hence you will routinely see Dr. W. Smith M.B. , B.S.
Just to confuse the issue, Surgeons are frequently called Mr. not Doctor

in

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these countries as well..
So Mr. W. Smith M.B. B.S. F.R.C.S.
Hope that confuses the issue appropriately

:-)

Tack

"> > > > >Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD

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> > >Board-Certified Atlanta Cardiologist
> > >http://www.heartmdphd.com
> >
> >
> > I thought that the correct title for physicians was:
> >
> > First name Last name, MD
> >
> > rather than putting "Dr" in front and MD in back.
> >
> > I mean, "MD" means "Doctor of Medicine", so
> > why be redundant?
> >
> > No hard feelings; just a point of curiosity.
>
> My personal opinion is that it's bad form to use both "Dr." and

"M.D."

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> around our names, and most of the folks I trained with agree. We

either

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> call ourselves Dr. "Name" or "Name," M.D. Never both. Using both is
> redundant and sounds funny, to boot.

Unless you are surrounded by folks who are using the Dr. title without

any

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kind of doctorate degree. Then sounding funny or redundant

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difference.

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Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD

In that case the "Dr." is still funny and redundant. Only the M.D. part

adds

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clarity.

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CBI, MD