"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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Lawyers aren't called "doctor" in the first place but we might argue similarly about putting "Esquire" after your name or introducing yourself as "an attorney" if you got the JD but never passed the bar
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or if you're only an esquire if you're the eldest son of a landed knight
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In an Arabic to English translation class in Egypt I was told that “lawyer” meant JD/LLB and “attorney” meant licensed to practice, but I’ve never heard that definitional distinction anywhere else
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Yeah as far as I'm aware this isn't true "Attorney" is the more "correct" and technical term, but the laws in the US against the unauthorized practice of law don't, IIRC, specify which word you use, you just can't do it
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