H hillofbeans Member 7+ Year Member 15+ Year Member 20+ Year Member Feb 13, 2004 #1 Advertisement - Members don't see this ad Seriously. If it were "Doctor of Medicine", wouldn't the abbreviation be DM? And "Medical Doctor" just sounds silly...
Advertisement - Members don't see this ad Seriously. If it were "Doctor of Medicine", wouldn't the abbreviation be DM? And "Medical Doctor" just sounds silly...
Trismegistus4 Credential Non-Respecter Verified Member Physician 20+ Year Member Feb 13, 2004 #3 The order of the letters seems reversed because it's originally from Latin, where adjectives and other modifiers usually come before the noun they modify. It stands for Medicinae Doctor, which means doctor of medicine.
The order of the letters seems reversed because it's originally from Latin, where adjectives and other modifiers usually come before the noun they modify. It stands for Medicinae Doctor, which means doctor of medicine.
V verbalassasin Senior Member 7+ Year Member 15+ Year Member Feb 13, 2004 #4 just like a PhD means Doctarate of Philosophy but the order is still PhD not DPh.
H hillofbeans Member 7+ Year Member 15+ Year Member 20+ Year Member Feb 13, 2004 #6 Originally posted by velouria Mucho Debt-o 🙂 Click to expand... Best I've seen yet! We could start a new joke thread. Critical care doc-- MD (Motion Detector)
Originally posted by velouria Mucho Debt-o 🙂 Click to expand... Best I've seen yet! We could start a new joke thread. Critical care doc-- MD (Motion Detector)