09-09-2011, 06:46 PM
Pam wrote:
We had a mom in my daughter's gymnastics parents group that was a nurse practitioner. Who got a Phd in education. Referred to herself as Dr so and so all the time. Deliberately letting people think she was an MD. Made me sick. .
I snickered at that. My father had a PhD in Geology, and was a University Professor. So we called him "Doctor". And, at parties, he would regularly be buttonholed by a grande dame who would begin the conversation with "Doctor , I have this pain.."
His patented response was "Madam, unless you are made entirely out of rocks, I cannot help you. I am a Professor of Geology."