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Dr. Jill Biden

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My wife is a veterinarian. I wonder if she's a "real doctor"?

It's funny because I'm a lot more protective of her title than she is. She could care less what people call her, but I know she worked her ass off for that degree and I'll be damned if I'm going to let someone who knows better call her Mrs. My-last-name. As if her marrying me was the keystone accomplishment of her life.

Also it's strange how people see Dr. My-last-name written on something and they automatically assume that I'm the Dr. Nope, she's both the brains and the beauty in this relationship.
 
railer said:
Well, all this time i just assumed she was an actual medical Dr., because the media often refers to her as Dr. Jill Biden.
Generally speaking if you are not a medical Dr., and you go around referring to yourself as a Dr. then you are probably an insecure phony.
That would be true for men or women or transgenders, before any of of the super-sensitive woke members of this forum get triggered.
You can get a PhD in Archeology. Does that give you the right to call yourself a doctor? Of course! Do you look like a jackass in doing so? Hmmm...
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It's always funny to see people like you unknowingly out yourselves. I've been in software development for 15 years and have worked with PhD's in both computer science and math, they are always referred to as Dr. in a professional environment.
 
The "I got street smarts" crowd is very concerned about all these liberal college elites tossing terms around.

Meanwhile millions of mid wives around the world are busy creating new business cards.
 
Do you not understand this is just more hate from the right! Hate people of color , hate foreigners, hate the educated, hate science and don't forget the rights mantra of a decade ago that all teachers are bad teachers.
 
railer said:
Well, all this time i just assumed she was an actual medical Dr., because the media often refers to her as Dr. Jill Biden.
Generally speaking if you are not a medical Dr., and you go around referring to yourself as a Dr. then you are probably an insecure phony.
That would be true for men or women or transgenders, before any of of the super-sensitive woke members of this forum get triggered.
You can get a PhD in Archeology. Does that give you the right to call yourself a doctor? Of course! Do you look like a jackass in doing so? Hmmm...
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Who knew that Indiana Jones was an insecure phony all this time?
 
Some of you gals just get hysterical over these type of issues. It's quite comical. Outside of academia, it is tacky and pretentious to call yourself a Dr. if you're not some type of medical Dr. And if your doctorate is in "educational leadership"???? OMFG that's just hilarious. "Dr." indeed.
 
railer said:
Awwww....sniff, sniff....won't anyone take my faux outrage seriously? I'm literally crying about someone else's accomplishments and how they choose to be addressed and how none of that affects me at all, yet my panties are in such a wad I have to open my mouth to piss, and I'm strangling myself I'm clutching my pearls so tightly!
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ftfy


Geez....such a stupid subject to obsess over. Tell me...what's your PhD in? Or is it that you have a medical degree and this just pisses you off to no end?

Absent either of those, just jealousy on your part. Hurts that that scary, bad woman achieved greater heights than you can ever achieve, right?
 
railer said:
Some of you gals just get hysterical over these type of issues. It's quite comical. Outside of academia, it is tacky and pretentious to call yourself a Dr. if you're not some type of medical Dr. And if your doctorate is in "educational leadership"???? OMFG that's just hilarious. "Dr." indeed.
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And you're a cuck snowflake.

Go crawl into your safespace, cuck.
 
My daughter should have her doctorate in a year or so. I fully expect her to use Dr. in the professional world.
 
railer said:
Some of you gals just get hysterical over these type of issues. It's quite comical. Outside of academia, it is tacky and pretentious to call yourself a Dr. if you're not some type of medical Dr. And if your doctorate is in "educational leadership"???? OMFG that's just hilarious. "Dr." indeed.
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So why are you angry about it?
 
railer said:
Well, all this time i just assumed she was an actual medical Dr., because the media often refers to her as Dr. Jill Biden.
Generally speaking if you are not a medical Dr., and you go around referring to yourself as a Dr. then you are probably an insecure phony.
That would be true for men or women or transgenders, before any of of the super-sensitive woke members of this forum get triggered.
You can get a PhD in Archeology. Does that give you the right to call yourself a doctor? Of course! Do you look like a jackass in doing so? Hmmm...
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well fuck yeah, we all know Doctor Jones

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railer said:
Some of you gals just get hysterical over these type of issues. It's quite comical. Outside of academia, it is tacky and pretentious to call yourself a Dr. if you're not some type of medical Dr. And if your doctorate is in "educational leadership"???? OMFG that's just hilarious. "Dr." indeed.
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Your highest level of educational achievement is?
 
ElMonoDelMar said:
My wife is a veterinarian. I wonder if she's a "real doctor"?

It's funny because I'm a lot more protective of her title than she is. She could care less what people call her, but I know she worked her ass off for that degree and I'll be damned if I'm going to let someone who knows better call her Mrs. My-last-name. As if her marrying me was the keystone accomplishment of her life.

Also it's strange how people see Dr. My-last-name written on something and they automatically assume that I'm the Dr. Nope, she's both the brains and the beauty in this relationship.
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Let's see. She can perform surgeries. She has to diagnose patients that cannot tell her where it hurts. She has to be a specialist in many things, pain management, behavior, infectious disease, acute orthopedic injuries, cancer, and so on. Her education starts out with exactly the same training as human doctors, she just branched off into a specialty same as any other specialist. She has the same knowledge of biology and chemistry and has to perform continuing education to maintain her license. I'd call that doctoring.
 
railer said:
Some of you gals just get hysterical over these type of issues. It's quite comical. Outside of academia, it is tacky and pretentious to call yourself a Dr. if you're not some type of medical Dr. And if your doctorate is in "educational leadership"???? OMFG that's just hilarious. "Dr." indeed.
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(a) misogyny noted ("gals" _and_ "hysteria"? Overdoing the conservative fear-of-women there, no?)

(b) nobody here feels sufficiently strongly about the issue to write an op-ed in the WSJ about it, so maybe the comically-strong-feelings are more on your side?

(c) it's not just 'academia' it also depends on your culture (I believe it's different in Germany, for example). But my guess would be with Dr Biden it's to do with generation, class-background (perhaps? just a guess) and being married to someone so prominent - causing a need to push back against being seen as merely an appendage to one's husband. My friends with PhDs don't use the title, but they aren't married to nationally-famous figures. It doesn't seem that surprising to me in her case.

But it does seem a very odd thing for a conservative to make a big deal about, given the remarkable and multitudinous character flaws of your guy.
 
Dr. Kissinger, Dr. Strangelove, whichever one was real; it's getting hard to distinguish fact from fiction these days.

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Saw this story on Inside Edition and it said you can be called as a doctor if you have Doctor degree in medical or ophthalmology or veterinary.
 
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Svnla said:
Saw this story on Inside Edition and it said you can be called as a doctor if you have Doctor degree in medical or ophthalmology or veterinary.
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Lol PhD stands for Doctor of Philosophy. Anyone who gets a PhD can call themselves doctor.
 
sdifox said:
Lol PhD stands for Doctor of Philosophy. Anyone who gets a PhD can call themselves doctor.
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Did you read my post? Here it is again, especially this part...." ........this story on Inside Edition and it said.............."

I didn't create the story, just report it.
 
Svnla said:
Did you read my post? Here it is again, especially this part...." ........this story on Inside Edition and it said.............."

I didn't create the story, just report it.
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I don't particularly care what tv program you got it from.
 
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