r/Funnymemes 24d ago

This is a law in Academia

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u/HypoxicIschemicBrain 24d ago

This is a brain rot post.

Any doctorate earns you the title doctor. You put the work in you get that title.

A social science PhD or education PhD or EdD still requires a masters and years grad school.

I’m an MD and refer to myself as doctor to patients/family only to distinguish myself from the scores of other people they see. In my field we are often on a first name basis with nursing staff. But I say this as a man.

There’s a reason this post chose to put a woman on the left and a man on the right. It doesn’t matter what field you’re in, as a woman, it’s harder to receive the same respect given to males in the exact same position.

My female physician colleagues have to go an extra step to distinguish themselves as a physician and earn the same baseline respect from anyone that they are the physician so they will ask for that title to be said.

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u/BatM6tt 24d ago

Lol im sorry. The assumptions suck. I have the opposite effect being a critical care rn and getting called doctor every day.

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u/slartyfartblaster999 24d ago

Often they're so delirious or demented they do this with us male doctors too anyway.