"Excuse me Jeremy, could you pass the salt"
"I prefer Dr. Smith. I am a cardiologist, after all"

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It’s not just an Australian thing that’s pompous in the US too
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No one actually does this, and I work in an Academic department full of PhD's. It's such a strawman.
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I use the "Dr." when I'm introducing myself in an exam room and absolutely nowhere else. I used to use first name/last name, but that left people confused about whether I was the doctor or just some other preliminary person.
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Dreadfully dreary and pompous, or brutally dismissive of someone's attempts to engage with them.
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Agreed. I’m even appalled when introductions occur at a work meeting and someone introduces themselves as Dr Smith. But perhaps that’s just the insecurity I feel as a non-medico epidemiologist with a PhD!
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You’d have to rule out Time Lord before making any assumptionspic.twitter.com/51sgqWn6gs
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That is very true!
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Maybe it's a worldwide thing, with the exception of Austria and some really evil Germans. ;-) https://www.img.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/nagel-eckhard/ …pic.twitter.com/074FnDTI5l
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