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So that’s what people use in conversation? They don’t use “doctor” as a synonym for physician?

• aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y ago
  Isn’t that what they say in Britain? “GP”?
  • laingc 6y ago
    Yes
• coyotespike 6y ago
  If it's as in Britain - and New Zealand is a Commonwealth country - then yes, people say, "I have an appointment with my GP."
  • tzs 6y ago
    My copies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories of Sherlock Holmes speak of Doctor Watson rather than GP Watson. Is this a Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerer's Stone situation where someone published an Americanized edition and that's what I have?
    • _nalply 6y ago
      No, I think it's because GP is a newish term.
    • laingc 6y ago
      There’s a difference between “being a doctor” and “Dr Watson”. Nobody would ever say an academic is “a doctor”.
• Taniwha 6y ago
  we do use "doctor" as a synonym fro GP, but we also understand that it's a traditional customary title and they don't actually have a doctorate
• laingc 6y ago
  As others have commented, you would indeed say, “I have an appointment with my GP.” However, people would certainly know what you meant if you said “I’m going to see the doctor.”