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I'd be interested in the history of how people in the medical profession came to misappropriate the term Doctor (which IIRC referred only to a PhD).
by SeanLuke 6y ago
I'd be interested in the history of how people in the medical profession came to misappropriate the term Doctor (which IIRC referred only to a PhD).
- barry-cotter 6y agoUniversities started out as trade schools for the clergy, lawyers and doctors. The Ph.D. significantly postdates that. The title of doctor originally meant you were qualified to lecture. It was in use long before anyone was granted a Ph.D. as an honorific basically equivalent to calling someone learned.
- andrewmcwatters 6y ago> Universities started out as trade schools for the clergy, lawyers and doctors. You mean, "the clergy, lawyers and physicians?" :)