BMJ  2005;330:1391 (11 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7504.1391-b

Letter

English surgeons may at last be about to become doctors

Anyone for bolting on the German system?

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EDITOR—With reference to Dobson's article,1 I quite like the German system [where "Dr" is an academic title, awarded for writing a thesis and sitting vivas. And you can gain more than one Dr by doing the required work]. Then we could call someone with an MD (a British one, that is, not an American one) and a PhD "Dr Dr Dr So-and-so."

What fun. As some of the respondents on bmj.com imply, titles and status are so very important.

William S Monkhouse, senior lecturer in anatomy

University of Nottingham Medical School at Derby, Derby DE22 3DT stanley.monkhouse@nottingham.ac.uk

Competing interests: WSM is medically qualified but not practising, with PhD.

  1. Dobson R. English surgeons may at last be about to become doctors. BMJ 2005;330: 1103. (14 May.)[Free Full Text]

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