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doctor title
I keep getting texts and emails from recruiters who reach out to me on first name basis for locums position, etc.
I feel annoyed by this. Sure if I knew the person or were introduced somehow through a personal connection, first name basis would be fine. But, in a professional setting where I don’t know this person, I still expect people to use the title “Doctor.”
Anyone else feel this way? Or am I over reacting here.
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That’s really strange and atypical. But it wouldn’t bother me.
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I only answer to “Master” or “Your Majesty”
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Just seems to me to be the continued watering down of our stature.
Then again, were just providers
Later bro
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I only answer to “Master” or “Your Majesty”
I don’t even turn my head unless I hear Mahatma Rad -
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I only answer to “Master” or “Your Majesty”
Mine is “Lord God King” 🙂
Similar situation many years ago when my med school alma mater sent a letter asking for donations. Salutation was “Dear Mr. [my last name]” Seriously? Sending a letter to med school grads with that salutation?
Have heard that in UK commonwealth countries, surgeons are addressed as “Mr.” Anyone confirm?
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I care if it’s at work…..I’ve had a few strange encounters with non physician staff calling me by my first name…It’s typically someone who is older than me. I don’t correct them but it’s annoying.
Outside of work I could care less. I do remember as a kid my friends all called my dad ( or anyone elses dad that was a physician, dentist etc ), “Dr. So and so” and not ‘Mr.’ – I don’t do that with my son’s friends, seems kinda silly to me , but idk.
As far as recruiters go, that is even more strange and I would absolutely correct them. -
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Have heard that in UK commonwealth countries, surgeons are addressed as “Mr.” Anyone confirm?
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Its unprofessional. Its hip and cool to act like oh who cares about proper use of the doctor title, but its lazy and sloppy in a professional setting.
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That’s really strange and atypical. But it wouldn’t bother me.
Yes atypical. Even when I respond with my 1st name, recruiters still use Dr.-
yeah atypical, but I doesn’t bother me. Only time I want to be called Doctor is by patients because it helps remind me of my role and the responsibility I have to be professional and not get pissed off at them if they are being stupid.
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I think it is important to be addressed as doctor.
1) you earned it.
2) the title used to be respected, as it should be.
3) once we start accepting that we are just average joe and should be called by first name and become buddies with the techs, nurses and admins, they can simply replace you with PAs and NPs.
4) I think part of the erosion of the respects for doctors and mid levels more powerful is because we have given up the title.
Im not saying, I walk around with a big head but it is a title you worked for an earned for. Just like a senator or president. No one says, mr obama they say president obama.-
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I think it is important to be addressed as doctor.
1) you earned it.
2) the title used to be respected, as it should be.
3) once we start accepting that we are just average joe and should be called by first name and become buddies with the techs, nurses and admins, they can simply replace you with PAs and NPs.
4) I think part of the erosion of the respects for doctors and mid levels more powerful is because we have given up the title.
Im not saying, I walk around with a big head but it is a title you worked for an earned for. Just like a senator or president. No one says, mr obama they say president obama.I agree. Well, it didn’t help the email was from one of those newfangled corporate groups. It just rubbed me the wrong way. Damn kids and theirs mbas.
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How about if you apply to a job and the person contacting you is another rad. How would you prefer to be addressed? First name or Dr.?
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First name only. If anyone refers to themselves as Dr. X, across any specialty, unless you’re the chair of a department, I get really rubbed the wrong way.
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I think it is important to be addressed as doctor.
1) you earned it.
2) the title used to be respected, as it should be.
3) once we start accepting that we are just average joe and should be called by first name and become buddies with the techs, nurses and admins, they can simply replace you with PAs and NPs.
4) I think part of the erosion of the respects for doctors and mid levels more powerful is because we have given up the title.
Im not saying, I walk around with a big head but it is a title you worked for an earned for. Just like a senator or president. No one says, mr obama they say president obama.I agree. Well, it didn’t help the email was from one of those newfangled corporate groups. It just rubbed me the wrong way. Damn kids and theirs mbas.
we all worked as hard as humans can to qualify ourselves. We get to be addressed as “Doctor” to recognize that.
There are those – businessmen, NPs, PAs who would like to elevate themselves by not recognizing your (in truth) superior training.
Don’t let them do that.
(in social settings with techs who are good friends, I preferred my first name, but otherwise, it was always “dr.’ Also lets patients in the room know who is in charge. )-
The scam education industry was the real first blow to this, when all the PhDs who are insecure (and paid far more than they were ever worth) demanded they be called “doctors.” Lest anyone forget
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Advanced non medical scholars have been called doctor since the Middle Ages. Docere, scholar or teacher. Before medical doctors were a thing.
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Its important in the professional setting. There are hierarchies of responsibility. If a headhunter I didnt know approached me with my first name it would probably be a short conversation. If it was another physician, interviewer or interviewee, I would use Dr until they invited me to address them otherwise.
There were a couple of well respected docs I grew up around. I was over 50, and a physician for at least 25 yrs before I could call them by first name, no matter how often they insisted.
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The only one who calls me docta is the wife of my phillipino dentist.
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You know how to say fu in Tagalog fw?
yes docta
Just some Filipina nurse levity. -
Chill out, its ok
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Lol.
In my personal experience growing up in an ethnically diverse area, Filipinos are like Armenians – a warm and hardy people, no better friend, no worse enemy. -
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You know how to say fu in Tagalog fw?
yes docta
Just some Filipina nurse levity.
Lol. Possibly true. The tagalog version of ‘Bless your heart’.
The only time I use ‘this is Dr __ from radiology’ is when I call an ER.
A recruiter who doesn’t know me addressing me by first name only at first contact would strike me as odd.
There are a few people really rabid about the doctor thing: Ed. D’s, chiroquacks , pastors and NPs.
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I usually see me addressed by first name when it is a sloppy recruiter using computer to spam multiple rads. Better yet, some come with name space empty. Not that I would consider one of those mass emails in this job market.
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