Ever been called "Dr. (Your name here)"

[shahalam]

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Wow it feels incredible, like it renews your determination to become a doctor. I was in the ER shadowing the doctor when the screaming patient grabs my arm and asks me for help. Needless to say, he was asking for stupid pain killers (yes i live in the part of the country where that runs very very rampant) and smelled liked crap, but it was all good! I just kind of told him to go wait where the actual doctor had told him to. Anyone else have a cool story like this?

 

[eddie13231]

I think it is cool but I never got a kick out of it. Dr. (name) just seems like an ego boost to me. When I someday get my MD I won't call myself Dr. (name), thats just me.

 

[Miss Alyssa]

my family and friends have been calling me doctor since highschool. They keep trying to get me to diagnose things...
But yah, my last name is also a size, and I'd rather just be called Dr. Alyssa

 

[beanbean]

First official "patient" to call me doc was a drunk in the ED. I told him I was a med student, not a doctor. He said "ok, Doc".

My kids call me Dr. Mommy sometimes.

 

[NiteOwl]

I was called "Doctor" by my speech professor one time. We had to give a speech having something to do with our career, job, or our future career. Well I ended up giving a speech on "how to become a doctor" because I dont have a career yet and there was no way I was going to stand up there and talk about Domino's (where I work). So I go up there and give my speech which turned out to be the best one I ever did. Then after I finished my prof said thank you Dr. my-last-name, that was an excellent speech. Yeah, I thought it was awesome. I usually don't have an ego, or at least don't show it, but it was really cool.

 

[Sansfrontier]

I had to wear a doc. lab coat to shaddow a doc. in ER and the security called me doc. and one patient asked me how old I was because I looked young for a doctor.
Other than that, packages that I get in our research lab are always addressed to Dr. Me! Or phone calls sometimes asking for Dr. me.
I get a kick out of it every once in a while but it doesn't feel quite right.

 

[Fenrezz]

Wow it feels incredible

Why does it feel incredible?

 

[Peterock]

I will be embarrassed for all of you if you guys don't hvae the common sense to feel ashamed over this thread.

 

[Rzarecta]

Why does it feel incredible?

Yea, seriously I feel like a total douche if anyone calls me Doctor, I haven't earned it yet.

 

[Miss Alyssa]

I think it's funny when people call me doctor (it hasn't happened much out of my family), but seriously I look like I'm 15 and I dont know how people can mistake me for a doctor

 

[it.]

closest thing to being called dr. is that i've been told i look smart...i don't have a clue how someone looks smart...she probably meant nerdy... 🙄

 

[rme04]

some of my friends have already started calling me doctor. its weird

 

[Ambs]

The doctors I work for sometimes call me "budding doctor." Even that embarasses me. I have SO not even remotely earned it yet. And our long time patients know I'm headed to school this fall and have thus started calling me doctor. That's even more unnerving... I just respond by saying "hopefully in a few years I will be." 😳

 

[SuperTrooper]

I will be embarrassed for all of you if you guys don't hvae the common sense to feel ashamed over this thread.

I second that.

One time this girl called me Mark, and my name isn't mark. Does that count?!

 

[it.]

I second that.

One time this girl called me Mark, and my name isn't mark. Does that count?!

meow, i'm not sure. it might, but then again meow, it might not. eh who cares. i'm going to sleep meow.

 

[Rzarecta]

meow, i'm not sure. it might, but then again meow, it might not. eh who cares. i'm going to sleep meow.

You got us good, you f*cker.

 

[exmike]

people call me dr. feelgood

 

[Karina]

First official "patient" to call me doc was a drunk in the ED. I told him I was a med student, not a doctor. He said "ok, Doc".

My kids call me Dr. Mommy sometimes.

"Dr. Mommy"...that is sooooooooo cute!....I need to have some babies! 🙁

Karina

 

[Fenrezz]

You got us good, you f*cker.

You got us good, you f*cker.

 

[g3pro]

I will be embarrassed for all of you if you guys don't hvae the common sense to feel ashamed over this thread.

Quoted for great justice.

 

[xSTALLiONx]

I think it's funny when people call me doctor (it hasn't happened much out of my family), but seriously I look like I'm 15 and I dont know how people can mistake me for a doctor

wow.. i guess you're family is stupid.. lol

 

[andrew88]

Ya I wrote an email to the technical support staff of biotech company, asking about their antibody, and when he replied, he wrote dear Dr. Vanderveer, and it did actually feel kinda good. It's more of a taste of thinkgs to come than it is an ego booster. Also, I think he probably worked a little harder for me because he thought I was a doctor.

 

[SuperTrooper]

wow.. i guess you're family is stupid.. lol

supertrooper seconds that. lol

 

[Rzarecta]

wow.. i guess you're family is stupid.. lol

So mean, but it honestly made me laugh, thus I have to give you a 👍 .

 

[Miss Alyssa]

wow.. i guess you're family is stupid.. lol

thanks man!
My family know how old I am, and what year university I'm in and all that. But I will be the first doctor on both sides of my family, which is why THEY call me doc. I wasn't talking about them when I said I look 15. When I'm volunteering or shadowing in hospitals, patients call me doctor, which doesn't make sense because I do look really young.

But thanks for the rude comment 😍

 

[swifteagle43]

It is fun to live in borrowed clothes but they become crappy when they are your own 🙁

 

[swifteagle43]

"It is fun to live in borrowed clothes but they become crappy when they are your own" Dr. Macbeth 🙁

 

[SuperTrooper]

"It is fun to live in borrowed clothes but they become crappy when they are your own" Dr. Macbeth 🙁

👍

I really didn't mean to knock anybody down. I can understand how it feels to be called doctor. It's happened to me once too. But for me it was nothing of an "ego boost." It was more like: "wow, I don't look like a high-school punk anymore." I felt the same way I felt the first time I took the car out by myself, the first time I didn't get carded for buying beer, the first I got called sir by some cashier, etc. I think it's important to remember that the title "Doctor" means absolutely nothing. I mean, some people may be initially impressed by it, but most people know that a lot of doctors can be dick-weeds.

That's the only important thing to be striving for: to NOT be called a dick-weed. 🙂

 

[gujuDoc]

Remember that Dr. can refer to PhD's too.

As per being called Doctor, I'll agree with Pete that there is nothing so special about it.

I will however say that volunteering and getting to interact in the hospital does make my day by motivating me.

I have a few PhD friends that absolutely HATE HATE HATE when people call them Dr.

They just got their PhD's, so its all new to them, and it makes them feel old.

I personally wouldn't care whether they call me doctor or by my first name. Its just a title.

 

[Brain]

Remember that Dr. can refer to PhD's too.

As per being called Doctor, I'll agree with Pete that there is nothing so special about it.

I will however say that volunteering and getting to interact in the hospital does make my day by motivating me.

I have a few PhD friends that absolutely HATE HATE HATE when people call them Dr.

They just got their PhD's, so its all new to them, and it makes them feel old.

I personally wouldn't care whether they call me doctor or by my first name. Its just a title.

I've been heavy into research and anytime I've had to deal with conference or journal stuff I get called Dr as if I had a PhD. I've been told that they do this for everyone because some MDs and PhDs get supremely pissed if they are not addressed as Dr. Personally, it makes me feel weird and I will never insist that someone call me Dr when I actually do become one.

 

[bruinfan32]

My rescue squad members call me Doogie, Dr. Hauser, and noobie. I love the reactions from the patients when they are old enough to know who Doogie Hauser is 😛

 

[felipe5]

Yea, seriously I feel like a total douche if anyone calls me Doctor, I haven't earned it yet.

EXACTLY...well put my friend. I feel that way, especially b/c i'm so early in the game. If you still feel good when people call you doctor b4 you earn it, the feeling of douche will quickly wash over you the second you fall flat on your face after getting pimped on something you know/should know/once knew but are just plain choking in the moment of impact with the back of the true doctor's hand.

 

[deleted50541]

My coworkers all started calling me Doc when I told one person I was applying to medical school. It got to be a little annoying but since the job wasn't in the medical field I didn't really mind.

Though I have been called doctor one or two times by patients in the ED who wanted more drugs. I always corrected them and didn't really feel one way or another about the incident.

 

[AcousticDoc]

I think the term "Doc" and "Doctor" are different. If you work as an EMT, most of your patients will call you "Doc" similar to grunts reffering to their medic as "Doc."