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Professor insisting to call themselves Doctor (1 Viewer)

wikkidpissah said:
I'll agree to call PhDs "Dr." if they'll use their special genius to come up with a term of respect for Nurse Practitioners & Physician's Assistants. We have like one MD & 20 PA-Cs, APRNs & NPs in my li'l town and i need something more formal to call the one fingerblasting my butt than "Renee".
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Sugar Britches?

 
On his podcast, Tony Kornheiser has started jokingly referring to himself as Dr. Kornheiser after receiving an honorary Doctorate from the school he graduated from (now SUNY Binghamton - I think) when he delivered a graduation speech.

 
Just a few quick things to add.  When graduating from pharmacy school, you are announced as "Dr. So-and-so."

You can make fun of someone requesting to be called it, but the terminology is correct even if your perception isn't.

I also hope most of you realize that there is a good chance your regular primary care physician doctor isn't an MD but a DO. 

 
Christo said:
I have a Juris Doctor. I demand you call me Dr. Christo from now on. I've earned it, dammit.
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We actually have a standing ethics order in New Jersey that bars us from referring to ourselves as Dr.

Which means some idiot attorney did it and annoyed enough people that someone filed an ethics complaint against him... And he lost.

 
wikkidpissah said:
I'll agree to call PhDs "Dr." if they'll use their special genius to come up with a term of respect for Nurse Practitioners & Physician's Assistants. We have like one MD & 20 PA-Cs, APRNs & NPs in my li'l town and i need something more formal to call the one fingerblasting my butt than "Renee".
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I call them doctor.  They function like doctors, so they are doctors to me.

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
One of my cousins is a college professor with a PhD in the humanities.  When one of his students addresses him as "Mister", he replies, "Mister Dickinson is my father's name.  Call me Doctor Dickinson."
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Outside of class, I'm sure the common response is "How about I just don't call you?" And then they turn and walk away.

 
Total doushbaggery.  What's even worse is the random stranger that corrects you.   "Mr smith, how may I help you?"  "It's dr smith".   Get. Over. Yourself. 

 
Dedfin said:
Maybe it depends on the college?  I resided in the math, physics, biology and chemistry depts and every one of my professors insisted on me calling them by their first names.  In a large setting most of them were fine with Dr. whatever, but in a small group or individually they bristled at being called Professor or Doctor whatever.  They didn't even want to be called Mr or Mrs/Ms.  Maybe science professors are more down to earth than history professors, I don't know.

I think the only people I would call Doctor who aren't actually doctors are Dr Who and Dr Kreiger.
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Times change.

It's been a while since I was in school, but as a chemist (undergrad and grad school) it was just assumed by everyone that your professors were "doctor xxx" and the graduate assistants were "mister xxxx." (Never had a female grad. assistant so no recollection what they went by...miss, probably.)

Seems that within a generation or two this has completely passed out of standard convention.  20 years ago it wasn't even something one thought to queetion, and now it's already pretentious.

Although yes, the one time a full prof. corrected someone in front of the class for calling him mister, he came off as a pompous buffoon.  

 
Arodin said:
Dedfin said:
Maybe it depends on the college?  I resided in the math, physics, biology and chemistry depts and every one of my professors insisted on me calling them by their first names.  In a large setting most of them were fine with Dr. whatever, but in a small group or individually they bristled at being called Professor or Doctor whatever.  They didn't even want to be called Mr or Mrs/Ms.  Maybe science professors are more down to earth than history professors, I don't know.

I think the only people I would call Doctor who aren't actually doctors are Dr Who and Dr Kreiger.
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Times change.

It's been a while since I was in school, but as a chemist (undergrad and grad school) it was just assumed by everyone that your professors were "doctor xxx" and the graduate assistants were "mister xxxx." (Never had a female grad. assistant so no recollection what they went by...miss, probably.)

Seems that within a generation or two this has completely passed out of standard convention.  20 years ago it wasn't even something one thought to queetion, and now it's already pretentious.

Although yes, the one time a full prof. corrected someone in front of the class for calling him mister, he came off as a pompous buffoon.
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Same here. I think in both undergrad and grad school, I called all my professors Dr unless they invited me to use their first name. 

I don't think I've ever heard anyone make an issue of it or notify anyone that was the term they wished used. Students just did it because it was the respectful address.

 
I work at a very large research University. Doctors all around me. I call everyone by their first name, unless I do not know it, and in that case, I ask them what their first name is.

 
All right, Cincinnati, it is time for this town to get down! You've got Johnny... Doctor Johnny Fever, and I am burnin' up in here! Whoa! Whoo! We all in critical condition, babies, but you can tell me where it hurts, because I got the healing prescription here from the big 'KRP musical medicine cabinet. Now I am talking about your 50,000 watt intensive care unit, babies! So just sit right down, relax, open your ears real wide and say, "Give it to me straight, Doctor. I can take it!"

 
wazoo11 said:
So, this semester, I have a couple of History professors in my Graduate department that have demanded me to address them as “Doctor” instead of "Professor" or "Mr".  I didn't have this experience in undergraduate and most professors went by Prof. A few went by their first name only because we're close.

I feel a tad bit unsure what's the proper call here. What do you say FFA?
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Doctor.... Doctor of insecurity...

 
Arodin said:
Times change.

It's been a while since I was in school, but as a chemist (undergrad and grad school) it was just assumed by everyone that your professors were "doctor xxx" and the graduate assistants were "mister xxxx." (Never had a female grad. assistant so no recollection what they went by...miss, probably.)

Seems that within a generation or two this has completely passed out of standard convention.  20 years ago it wasn't even something one thought to queetion, and now it's already pretentious.

Although yes, the one time a full prof. corrected someone in front of the class for calling him mister, he came off as a pompous buffoon.  
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Are people even saying it's really all that pretentious to accept being called doctor?  It's only the correcting/demanding part that's pretentious to me.

Or maybe you mean the professors themselves (or many of them) think it's pretentious to ask/demand it and that's why it's become much less common over time for them to be called it by their students now?  That would make a lot of sense.

 
Arodin said:
Times change.

It's been a while since I was in school, but as a chemist (undergrad and grad school) it was just assumed by everyone that your professors were "doctor xxx" and the graduate assistants were "mister xxxx." (Never had a female grad. assistant so no recollection what they went by...miss, probably.)

Seems that within a generation or two this has completely passed out of standard convention.  20 years ago it wasn't even something one thought to queetion, and now it's already pretentious.

Although yes, the one time a full prof. corrected someone in front of the class for calling him mister, he came off as a pompous buffoon.  
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Why would you call someone Doctor if they weren't :unsure:

When I went to school we would call anyone a PHD Doctor but being a professor did not mean one had a PhD

 
one time said:
Just a few quick things to add.  When graduating from pharmacy school, you are announced as "Dr. So-and-so."

You can make fun of someone requesting to be called it, but the terminology is correct even if your perception isn't.
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This was so much better when I read it as, "You can make fun of someone requesting to be called it, but the terminology is correct even if your perception prescription isn't".

 
over/under when we complain about calling MDs doctor.  I am guessing 75% of you call them "hey you".

 
Dentist said:
Although I do feel I've earned it... i haven't introduced myself to a patient by anything other than just my first name in over 10 years
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I give it when not asked. I had a client who was a Dentist who got upset if someone did not refer to her as Dr XXXXX at all times. Irritated the hell out of me.

I refer to my Dentist and all other Dentists I come in contact with as Dr... it is the insisting part that rubs me the wrong way with a Dentist or Vet.

 
Do people call their Dentist   Dr. "whatever" ?    

Yeah, most Dr.'s who are not dooshes don't really care that they are not addressed as "Dr. Smith"

Cool story working around surgeons for the past 20 years I have heard many many times that when you first meet a Dr. and they say they are Dr. Smith  they are a doosh. 

I have seen a surgeon introduce himself to another surgeon saying, "Hi my name is Greg, and the other surgeons say, "Hi, I am Dr. Jones!"    :lol:   Yeah, both docs knew they doctors.

 Most of the time Dr.'s will say I am Bill, Jim whatever the #### their first name is.     

oh, btw,    D.O and M.D.s do the all the same things.       But, many M.D. don't look at the D.O. as an equal.   Crazy since both do the same ####### job, with the same exact credentials. 

 
SHIZNITTTT said:
Do people call their Dentist   Dr. "whatever" ?    

Yeah, most Dr.'s who are not dooshes don't really care that they are not addressed as "Dr. Smith"

Cool story working around surgeons for the past 20 years I have heard many many times that when you first meet a Dr. and they say they are Dr. Smith  they are a doosh. 

I have seen a surgeon introduce himself to another surgeon saying, "Hi my name is Greg, and the other surgeons say, "Hi, I am Dr. Jones!"    :lol:   Yeah, both docs knew they doctors.

 Most of the time Dr.'s will say I am Bill, Jim whatever the #### their first name is.     

oh, btw,    D.O and M.D.s do the all the same things.       But, many M.D. don't look at the D.O. as an equal.   Crazy since both do the same ####### job, with the same exact credentials. 
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What is a DO?

 
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