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minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-28 months agoDoctor means “to teach.” MDs need to stop using it (unless they work for a teaching hospital or as a researcher) and we wouldn’t have this problem.
minus-squareWIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoThe problem mostly arises in English. I speak several other languages and all of them have a separate word for doctor(phD) and doctor(healer or whatever). I never understood why it is that way in english.
Doctor means “to teach.” MDs need to stop using it (unless they work for a teaching hospital or as a researcher) and we wouldn’t have this problem.
The problem mostly arises in English. I speak several other languages and all of them have a separate word for doctor(phD) and doctor(healer or whatever). I never understood why it is that way in english.