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My district manager is a PharmD. Should I refer to him as Mr. X or Dr. X?

 

[pinkyrx]

My district manager is a PharmD. Should I refer to him as Mr. X or Dr. X?

Depends on what he likes... I call my DM by his first name. He would laugh if I called him Dr or Mr.

To be safe (and if there is noone to ask) you could just call him Dr. X and if he doesn't like it he'll tell you.

 

[jpharmfarm]

So not only are pharmacists the only profession to not get a lunch, they're also the people with doctorates who are not called doctor in their professional environment. Strange stuff.

 

[slimcutt]

I have no desire to be called Dr. _____. As a side note, I think white lab coats are lame and pharmacists should do away with them. Who's with me?

 

[shawnrx]

i love how i am saying how pharmacist get no respect and everyone agrees here, but when i say it everyone cries and runs for their mommies. listen my husband is a medical doctor , out of respect i call him dr, as does everyone. he asks me not to but i feel he earned it and its his title in our home. now i will get a pharmD that is not a medical degree and no one adreesses a pharmacist as a doctor in the retail or hospital setting. only in the academic setting is that approproate, because they are "professors' and even so its not necessary unless they have a phD. please dont insist on calling pharmacist doctors, because that just proves that we are insecure. we all know we have a pharmD thats good enough.

 

[shawnrx]

we must wear the lab coats its llike a uniform, think about it. we need to be UNIFORMED , pharmacist also have very poor choice in wardrobes, so i think its a great cover 😉😀

 

[OKgirl]

I have no desire to be called Dr. _____. As a side note, I think white lab coats are lame and pharmacists should do away with them. Who's with me?

I think a white lab coat would be better than a typical uniform because you at least have a degree of freedom with what you wear.

 

[tussionex]

I have no desire to be called Dr. _____. As a side note, I think white lab coats are lame and pharmacists should do away with them. Who's with me?

hate them, hate them, hate them

 

[njac]

I love the labcoat because of the POCKETS!

AND

you can get deodorant all over your shirt in the morning and no one knows!!!!! how rad is that!?

sadly, the pharmacists at my hospital rarely, if ever, wear labcoats. I love them.

 

[pharmboy30]

I have no desire to be called Dr. _____. As a side note, I think white lab coats are lame and pharmacists should do away with them. Who's with me?

me!

 

[pharmboy30]

i love how i am saying how pharmacist get no respect and everyone agrees here, but when i say it everyone cries and runs for their mommies. listen my husband is a medical doctor , out of respect i call him dr, as does everyone. he asks me not to but i feel he earned it and its his title in our home. now i will get a pharmD that is not a medical degree and no one adreesses a pharmacist as a doctor in the retail or hospital setting. only in the academic setting is that approproate, because they are "professors' and even so its not necessary unless they have a phD. please dont insist on calling pharmacist doctors, because that just proves that we are insecure. we all know we have a pharmD thats good enough.

I get my girlfriend to call me DOCTOR during our "special times"....
she calls me KING or Your Majestythe other times, it's my title in my home.

 

[tussionex]

you can also wear whatever you want underneath...that's probably the only redeeming feature of the white coat. ok, and the pockets.....which, truth be told, i would wear one for the pockets if i worked on the floors, just to have a place to put my stuff....

i don't feel that they carry any significance anymore...yesterday, i was on line in my hospital's deli. of the five people in there with white coats on: 2 were unit secretaries, 1 was env. service manager, and 2 were nurses. i'm not knocking anyone else's profession, but how can you feel like they make you look "important" [which is the slop the schools try to sell you, along with the cheesy polyester coat] when everyone in the house is wearing one.

when we have students, i usually make them take them off. it's fun to watch their shocked expressions....hey, we have two students, i think i will get one to strip today !!!

 

[PHARMDhope2b]

i love how i am saying how pharmacist get no respect and everyone agrees here, but when i say it everyone cries and runs for their mommies. listen my husband is a medical doctor , out of respect i call him dr, as does everyone. he asks me not to but i feel he earned it and its his title in our home. now i will get a pharmD that is not a medical degree and no one adreesses a pharmacist as a doctor in the retail or hospital setting. only in the academic setting is that approproate, because they are "professors' and even so its not necessary unless they have a phD. please dont insist on calling pharmacist doctors, because that just proves that we are insecure. we all know we have a pharmD thats good enough.

That is not entirely true.
At most major university medical centers, the pharmacist is referred to as Dr. X. Duke University, UNC, Wake Forest Baptist, etc. Its not insecurity, its respect, mutual respect. And as long as we view ourselves as working under the physician and not alongside them ("he has a MD, i ONLY have a PharmD, i cant possibly be called doctor like him), the world will continue to think that we became pharmacist after going to community college, lol. Gimme a break.

 

[OKgirl]

That is not entirely true.
At most major university medical centers, the pharmacist is referred to as Dr. X. Duke University, UNC, Wake Forest Baptist, etc. Its not insecurity, its respect, mutual respect. And as long as we view ourselves as working under the physician and not alongside them ("he has a MD, i ONLY have a PharmD, i cant possibly be called doctor like him), the world will continue to think that we became pharmacist after going to community college, lol. Gimme a break.

My favorite is when you tell someone you are going to school to be a pharmacist and they say "Oh yeah my _______ is one, but they didn't have to go to college, so I don't see why your going to college for it." I wish people knew that there is a difference between becoming a pharmacist and a pharmacy tech.

 

[VCU07]

i love how i am saying how pharmacist get no respect and everyone agrees here, but when i say it everyone cries and runs for their mommies. listen my husband is a medical doctor , out of respect i call him dr, as does everyone. he asks me not to but i feel he earned it and its his title in our home. now i will get a pharmD that is not a medical degree and no one adreesses a pharmacist as a doctor in the retail or hospital setting. only in the academic setting is that approproate, because they are "professors' and even so its not necessary unless they have a phD. please dont insist on calling pharmacist doctors, because that just proves that we are insecure. we all know we have a pharmD thats good enough.

That is a misconstrued view to have of our degree. Like the other post, we have earned our degrees (many of us with a prior degree). I went through 8 years of college to the the PharmD and it rightfully so is a doctorate degree. Dentists are not mandated to do residency and have also completed 8 years of education, but they can be called Dr. and not us? If we are to demonstrate our value as professionals, we can not continue on with this mentality that we are not good enough to be doctorate level professionals.

 

[twester]

I will expect my name tag to include "Dr." in front of my name. People can just call me Troy, though.