"Dr." started as a title for academic doctors before it became a title for physicians Whatever your own feelings may be, the original idea of the title was always to indicate that PhDs are at the top level of expertise in their field, not that medicine is a unique fieldhttps://twitter.com/meghan_daum/status/1256267018992521217 …
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The word "doctor" literally means "teacher" in Latin, same root as "doctrine" It means someone who's qualified to tell you what the accepted doctrine in a field of study is and has contributed to that doctrine
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Is it a classist and elitist distinction? Obviously But it's also extremely dangerous to just go around acting like qualifications mean nothing and anyone who browses the Internet can be an instant expert
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And what's actually worse is acting like MDs really are smarter than everyone else in the world about *everything* Like a practicing MD is just as or more qualified to talk about the virus than a PhD in epidemiology or public health (they are way less qualified)
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