Dr. Or Mr.?

[quinie]

My friend in Canada wants to know why I referred to a doctor as Mr ....Is it because specialists in this country (at least in Scotland, don't know about England) are called Mr instead of Dr? Where she lives they're all called Dr. She then asked what women specialists are called??Can anyone shed any light on the subject,please?

[Sqad]

stuey...quite Royal College of Pathologists.

One needs to be a Royal College of Surgeons to be called..........Mr.

[stuey]

Perhaps, Sqad, I didn't it correctly. My question was could a Pathologist be classed as a surgeon since they do operate, albeit the patient is dead. Their title, to my question, is not important.

[boxtops]

I'm pretty sure squad's covered it all, but briefly

a consultant surgeon is a Mr
A consultant physician is a Dr

My dentist calls himself Dr but I don't know why....

[Sqad]

stuey...sorry.

No, to be called a surgeon one has to start with the living..........
to start with the dead doesn't count.

[stuey]

Dentists and Optometrists, amongst others, do earn a Doctor's degree, although obviously not in medicine.

[tonyav]

I had a woman operate on me once, she was a Mrs.

[Mamyalynne]

I just get on first name terms with mine, saves all that faffing about. Except for one whose name I can't pronounce, I call him Roget because his name sounds like Thesaurus.

[boxtops]

Cheers sqad. I'll call him Dr when I show his my sore cavity tomorrow :-)

[Sqad]

boxy....remember when the dentist says "open wide" he means your mouth ;-)

[boxtops]

Too piggin' right, sqaddy :-)

[Peter Pedant]

My dentist called himself Dr because he had a Ph D - oral pathology I think.

Pathologists if they are MB BS are definitely Doctor

Gynaecologists have gone back to being Doctor having been Mr for god knows how long, but each one can choose - if the operate they may keep the Mr. I have to ask them what they are.