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Originally Posted by martinjsxx
I had classes with dozens of Professors with PhDs in college and graduate school and not a single one referred to themselves as Doctor, nor did any students call them Doctor. They were always referred to as Professor and that was in an academic environment. It is pretentious for a PhD to call themselves a Doctor when they know their audience will just assume they are a medical doctor.
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Not every Ph.D is entitled to use the title professor. The title professor is earned usually by publishing articles and the university granting it to someone who already has a Ph.D. Most of those who have Ph.D use their Dr. title in written form nowadays rather than when teaching students. But I do agree that in the case of a person with Ph.d rather than a M.D should not be using the title without explaing they are not a medical doctor.
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