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Professor
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A good mate of mine has recently been under the care of a consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital. This chap is now a Professor. What does one do/achieve in order to become a Professor? My friend asked me this on the phone and I had to say "no idea"!
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The day will come, BM, when you're the Right Honourable the Lady Justice Barmaid but for now you'll have to settle for being a right something. Still, at least you're 'right' either way.
17:51 Mon 22nd Oct 2012
Yes, a surgeon is Mr and of higher status than plain Dr but I notice that specialist surgeons who deal with foreigners, such as at the Cromwell, have Dr on their business cards and invoices. No doubt 'Mr' is not appreciated by their patients, who may think they are being treated by the doorman! Some specialist are also Professors though
All doctors who posses the post graduate degree of F.R.C.S fellowship of the Royal college of Surgeons can take the title of Mr.
This only applies in the UK with the exception of Scotland where surgeons still retain the title of Dr.
When guilds were formed, anyone taking and passing a degree were given professional status where other non graduates were craftsmen or tradesmen.
This posed a problem, as surgeons never took an examination learning their craft by paying a recognized surgeon to be his "apprentice" and when the "boss " thought he was ready, then the pupil was appointed Consultant Surgeon to a hospital.
So what was to become of our surgeons?
It was decided that they shoudl be admitted into the "Barbers Guild" as barbers in those days "let blood"....and it is now known as the Barbers and Surgeons guild and our surgeon remains MR. because of this.
This only applies in the UK with the exception of Scotland where surgeons still retain the title of Dr.
When guilds were formed, anyone taking and passing a degree were given professional status where other non graduates were craftsmen or tradesmen.
This posed a problem, as surgeons never took an examination learning their craft by paying a recognized surgeon to be his "apprentice" and when the "boss " thought he was ready, then the pupil was appointed Consultant Surgeon to a hospital.
So what was to become of our surgeons?
It was decided that they shoudl be admitted into the "Barbers Guild" as barbers in those days "let blood"....and it is now known as the Barbers and Surgeons guild and our surgeon remains MR. because of this.
