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The question was posed in another thread: "Is it bad karma/luck, morally wrong, or perfectly ok for students who are not yet MD's, PhD's, or any other terminal degree to call themselves 'doctor'?"
Examples of this would be if my SDN name were DrHusky85 or if I allowed my friends to refer to me as Dr. ______ in jest even though I'm just a medical student.
Please vote on which you feel is closest to your opinion in the poll above:
1. It is perfectly ok for anyone to call themselves doctor in any way.
2. It's bad luck to call yourself doctor if you don't have a terminal degree, but it doesn't bother you personally (calling yourself doctor before you are one might bring bad luck/jinx you, but if other people want bad luck, they're welcome to it!)
3. It's ok to slip up once in awhile and call yourself doctor, but one should try to avoid it. (It's ok to jokingly call yourself doctor ______, but not to include it in any SN, SDN name, email address, or anything like that)
4. It's annoying when under-qualified people call themselves doctor, but I deal with it.
5. It is a travesty to falsely call yourself doctor and people who do it make me angry!!!
This idea was an interesting hijack in another thread, so I decided to give it its own thread so that we can actually find out how people feel about this!
Examples of this would be if my SDN name were DrHusky85 or if I allowed my friends to refer to me as Dr. ______ in jest even though I'm just a medical student.
Please vote on which you feel is closest to your opinion in the poll above:
1. It is perfectly ok for anyone to call themselves doctor in any way.
2. It's bad luck to call yourself doctor if you don't have a terminal degree, but it doesn't bother you personally (calling yourself doctor before you are one might bring bad luck/jinx you, but if other people want bad luck, they're welcome to it!)
3. It's ok to slip up once in awhile and call yourself doctor, but one should try to avoid it. (It's ok to jokingly call yourself doctor ______, but not to include it in any SN, SDN name, email address, or anything like that)
4. It's annoying when under-qualified people call themselves doctor, but I deal with it.
5. It is a travesty to falsely call yourself doctor and people who do it make me angry!!!
This idea was an interesting hijack in another thread, so I decided to give it its own thread so that we can actually find out how people feel about this!