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    I imagine that's why you can get t-shirts etc. emblazoned with the legend ‘NOT THAT KIND OF DOCTOR’. Commented Jan 23, 2025 at 15:51
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    "I'm a doctor! What kind of library are you wanting me to design?" is not going to go down well Commented Jan 24, 2025 at 5:41
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    reddit.com/… Commented Jan 24, 2025 at 11:55
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    This answer completely misses the point. OP isn't an academic, they're a professional PhD actively providing clinical care. They are exactly the one to be called if somebody is threatening suicide and they make very consequential decisions like whether to involuntarily commit them. That's exactly why they want to be addressed as "doctor" in professional settings. Commented Jan 24, 2025 at 21:54
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    This answer shows exactly the issue that OP is facing. While they make direct, consequential, patient care decisions in clinical environments, somebody assumes they don't. And even then somebody makes up some irrelevant criteria ("emergency care" so primary care physicians, ophthalmologists, dental surgeons aren't doctors?) to claim they're a fake doctor. Commented Jan 25, 2025 at 0:26