It's not about how you feel but what's appropriate in a setting. And I can and will tell you what's appropriate. And go ahead and announce yourself as a Dr. Rutgers in a room full of attendings, residents, and hospital administrators. It's one thing for others to introduce you as Dr. Rutgers...but it's another for you a pharmacist to announe to certain audience that you're a Dr. So and So.
Nope. You will follow the culture and rules of the institution you work at. Not what you think you have the rights to.
Nope. You can come up to me and introduce yourself as whatever you want but I will call you by your first name and you won't have anything else to say about it. BTW, I am a preceptor for your school.
I'm not hostile.
I think it's pretty clear that if I am a student and you are my preceptor you will be calling me by first name and it would be ridiculous for me to ask someone to call me Dr in that situation.
I completely agree on the whole institutional setting determining what people are called.
I think you misunderstand me. I will always introduce myself as "firstname lastname". I would never walk into a meeting and say "hi, I'm dr. so and so".
I'm just saying that if the choices are my first name alone, "dr", or "ms" and I don't feel comfortable in that setting being called by my first name, then is it really inappropraite for me to go by "Dr" rather than "ms"?
If you think so, that's up to you. But if someone explicitly, in a setting that it is appropriate to do so, referred to themselves as "Dr" and you continued to call them by their first name and/or "mr/ms" that is disrespectful.
I don't call my professors "mr. or ms" or even "professor" when they refer to themselves as "dr".
The hostile comment came from the fact that you cursed. I see now that you didn't mean it in a hostile way, but the internet can be misleading.
