We call people with doctorate degrees "doctor".

Why do we not call people with masters degrees "master" or, people with bachelor degrees "bachelor"?

Answer now, Dammit!!!

GED Dookus, dammit!

I had to call all my professors Dr.

Master Baitor.

...outside of an academic environment, only a medical doctor is customarily called doctor. PhDs are like money, she says--you just assume everyone has one!

At least I can say that much of learning didn't come from a damned coloring book of the cranial nerves!:hippie:

or perhaps she'll be administered an injection where the sun don't shine.... (now that wouldn't be impolite, would it?!!!!)

I was mentally including those fields. I forget y'all can't read my mind!

considered to have doctoral-level training. Probably a healthy attitude, in that doctors in the US are too often (for their patients' own good) elevated to the status of G.O.D.s

graduate study. If one continues on in education and completes graduate studies, they receive a post-graduate degree and are referred to as "Professor".

But here a medical practitioner is usually adressed "Doktor", especially by older persons.
However the number of med school graduates without a doctorate degree is growing. Well at least there is a word other than "Doktor" : "Arzt".

EOM

Noone calls me doctor. I also got my Masters after my Doctorate. So the legal degree process is flawed!!

You are due.

My parents both had PhDs and neither were ever called doctor.

An "esquire" was a gentleman; that is, one who owned land, and had the right to bear arms. Esquire was the rank right below knight in the medieval status hierarchy. Entering one of the professions...the law, medicine (NB: NOT surgery. Surgeons were barbers, and NOT considered gentlemen. In the UK today, surgeons are addressed as Mr and not Dr), or the clergy...was generally considered to elevate one to the status of esquire. Its use has been retained by the legal profession in the United States (which the Brits find somewhat amusing).

... that if you had a Masters, you didn't have to call professors with a PhD, "Doctor".

'doctor' and prefer first-name. The title's only used when they want to exert authority to get something for themselves or a student, especially when dealing with some of the more intractable middle-management megalomaniacs that run rampant in universities and the like. Markedly different in some other countries, where you'd better be calling them "doctor."

unless they're a medical doctor (or dentist or vet). We never called our professors Doctor, just professor, or by their first name. None of my friends with doctorates (from engineering to vulcanology to theology, etc.) go by doctor. If they write a paper, or are giving a lecture, then they'll use the Dr. title in the paperwork.

When I worked for the world's foremost consulting company, i worked with a lot of people with Ph.D.s, and they were all on first name basis. Even the ones who actually were medical doctors (yes, some medical doctors leave medical practice for the saner, less litigious world of management consulting).

Seems pretty normal in the US to not want to be called Dr., except for medical profession.

But as you say, in some other countries you DAMN WELL better call them doctor if they have a Ph.D. of any kind.

I demand that all my students call me Herr Doctor Professor Chairman DUright. :evilgrin:

and thus, being Canadian, are jealous of not being American, and not having that power, and thus you make up for that jealousy and lack of power by pretending to have more authority than you have, and thus oppress your students with your psychotic delusions of grandeur and self-importance. :-)

It burns my nose and is tough to get out of the keyboard :-)

There only a few pompous asses who want to be called Doctor! My two ways of knowing Ph.D.'s though are as fellow faculty, or in industry. Since we're peers, nobody expects anything but first name basis. But, if any of the folks i know asked to be called Doctor, i think i'd pull them aside and tell them to cool it.
The Professor

I work with multiple PhDs to get my research and grants done but the person I work for who has a PhD (who has much less knowledge than many of the other PhDs I work with) it is an unspoken rule that you call him Dr ******.

a medical office (i.e., someone that I don't know is a doctor) to insist that I call him (or her, but what're the odds of that happening?) 'doctor.' Oh, I can't wait.

"Mr...uh...Stoatgobbler. Nice to meet you."

"That's Doctor Stoatgobbler, Mr Gump."

"Actually, that's Doctor Gump, you pompous motherf***er."

As for pompous asses with PhDs, in my experience most of the US variety express it through lovely customs like attacking a grad student's thesis/dissertation at the defense when THEY were a committee member. You know the type, I'm sure....the ones that seem to need to put down or attack grad students to make themselves feel more manly and doctoral. They're out there, and I only hope they're as small a minority in other fields as they are in mine. When I was awarded my degree it came with a rule book that said I could beat the ever-loving youknowwhat out of those slimeballs.

(English) Ph.D.s get called Professor or unemployed; we never call people "Doctor." But if some people prefer it, I suppose I would acquiesce.

a Psyd?

You ask, Why do we not call people with master's degrees "Master"?

Simple.

If people were addressed as "master", it would be assumed that they were Jedi.

However, it only comes to that when you get your third masters degree. The jedi powers are revealed after two, and fully realized after the 3rd. It's pretty cool!

As proof of my powers, let me say, that YOU DO NOT NEED TO QUESTION MY POWERS!
The Professor

It works!
The Professor

Which has a fine, honorable etymology--it's the sources of "Mrs", "Miss" and "Ms." But giggling might ensue from the less enlightened.

And I believe I'll be called Doctor primarily in my line of work, which is consulting. Doctor ups the hourly rate you know....

When I finish my degree in December? Hmmm, that'd be one way to get respect from these insolent college kids.

waiting for an attorney to present him/herself on our roster as "Lawyer Lawyer".

:7

For us Master's degree types. Maybe it should be resrticted rto fields where a master's is a terminal degree, like fine arts, where the MFA iis the terminal degree. (FULL DISCLOSURE: I have an MFA; you peons may address me as "Maestro".)

That's what kind of degree I got. For chrissakes, who but an emotionally screwed up fundamentalist Evangelical Christian, majoring in Bible and minoring in English, can gain 60 credits in three years and still not get even an AA?!

Congratulations on your coming out, by the way. :bounce: