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On the subject of “Who is entitled to the title of ‘Doctor’?” regarding the WSJ hot mess article, I thought it important to offer a linguistic & historical perspective.
Bottomline, if we adopt the historical (& linguistic lens), PhDs are the the real “doctors”.
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Bottomline, if we adopt the historical (& linguistic lens), PhDs are the the real “doctors”.
A thread 1/
“Doctor” comes from the latin “Docere” which means “To teach”. From the 1300s, It was donned on eminent scholars who have distinguished themselves after many years of learning and research to earn a doctorate so they could teach in Universities. 2/
It was around the 1600s that medical schools started according their graduates the title of “Doctor” after graduation from what is considered an undergraduate program in the hierarchy of university programs. 3/
