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Re: I graduated from school.
« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2009, 08:40:53 am »
I am intrigued. What are surgeons called in the UK, if not "doctor"?
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Re: I graduated from school.
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2009, 09:28:17 am »
Once you get a surgical qualification over here, you go back to being 'Mr' or 'Ms' or whatever. I assume it stems from the days when surgeons weren't really qualified at all, but it has a nice ring of "I cut people up all day, I don't need a fancy title to show off my position".
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Re: I graduated from school.
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2009, 04:40:48 pm »
Here in the US, if my Registered Nurse sister-in-law is to be believed, surgeons prefer to be addressed as "Your Lordship", or "Highness".
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Re: I graduated from school.
« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2009, 07:15:55 pm »
Quote from: Toaster on May 21, 2009, 04:32:08 am
If I was a doctor, I would be one of those doctors who corrects people who called me "Mr."

If you do that you will be cursed with people thinking you are an MD wanting you to look at their rash.
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