I don't hold any degree which is connected to the title 'Doctor' at all. But I have to respond to one of your points, that you take issue with people who wish t

I don't hold any degree which is connected to the title 'Doctor' at all. But I have to respond to one of your points, that you take issue with people who wish to use the title 'Doctor' when they aren't medical doctors. The term itself comes from the Latin 'docere' - to teach - and goes back to before the first European universities. The title of Doctor for physicians and surgeons is much more recent, and was actually a status-elevating maneuver. Even today, in the UK and countries that follow that system, a surgeon is called 'Mister' and a physician, who is called 'Doctor', will have an Bachelor of Medicine (MB) degree. The MD in that system is a proper medical research doctorate. So this notion that an academician isn't a proper or 'real' doctor is quite bizarre and ahistorical, It's also unnecessary to reserve the word to distinguish those in the medical fields, since they already have a number of words that refer exclusively to them, physician, surgeon, etc.