PhD by publication, a route of attaining a 'doctorate', is growing in adoption, yet has not
gained universal acceptance. Whilst doctoral students are expected to free range, be …

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to determine if the use of professional titles in patient
electronic health record (EHR) messages varied by gender of the physician receiving the …

The doctor is not just an encyclopedic reference of medical knowledge and experience. I
fear this is the primary role science has given them today. Patients are no longer a manilla …

Descriptively, the answer depends on jurisdiction. In several European nations, such as
Germany and Poland, a doctor is a holder of an academic doctorate. Gradu ates of …

Several interesting points were made by Asfour and Winter in their letter1 in response to the
2016 CMAJ News article by Roger Collier on who is entitled to be called a doctor. 2 …

I agree that PhD graduates are entitled to use the title" doctors."< 1> When I studied
pharmacy at a Canadian university, I addressed many of the faculty members as" doctors," …