At 7:10 AM -0500 2/26/04, Michael J. Renner wrote:
Once I learned that the title "Grand High Mocus" had already been claimed (by
a character in the comic strip Pogo, I believe), I sort of lost interest.
The best reply I've heard to the claim sometimes heard that physicians are the
only "real doctors" came from a psychiatrist colleague who worked in a medical
school. He said "Professors were being called doctors when physicians were
still being called barbers." His explanation was that, in the US, the title
"Dr." was pushed by the AMA early in the 20th century as a
credibility-building PR move. There were so many quacks around that they
needed the prestige they could borrow from the academic world to re-assert
their legitimacy.
Does anybody care to share the etimology of the world "doctor?"
From Merriam-Webster's Unabridged:
"Etymology:
Middle English doctour, from Middle French &
Medieval Latin; Middle French doctour, docteur, from Medieval
Latin doctor, from Latin, teacher, from doctus (past
participle of docre to teach) + -or -- more
at DOCILE
1 a : a religious scholar who is eminent in theological learning and personal holiness and usually an expounder and defender of established doctrine <Christ disputed with the doctors> <St. Jerome was one of the great doctors of the church> b archaic : a person competent by reason of skill and knowledge to teach or expound authoritatively a subject or field of knowledge; broadly : a person who teaches or expounds something -- used with of c : a person who has earned one of the highest academic degrees (as a PhD) conferred by a university usually by spending several years in advanced study of a specialized field, by writing an acceptable dissertation, and by passing numerous rigorous examinations d : a person awarded an honorary doctorate (as an LLD or LittD) by a college or university
2 : one skilled or specializing in healing arts: a : a practitioner of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine b : a person who has completed a course of study in one of these fields and been duly licensed to practice his profession c : PHYSICIAN -- distinguished from surgeon d : a medicine man in a primitive culture; broadly : any practitioner (as a rainmaker or shaman) of mysterious or magic arts in such a culture
3 archaic slang : a loaded die"
1 a : a religious scholar who is eminent in theological learning and personal holiness and usually an expounder and defender of established doctrine <Christ disputed with the doctors> <St. Jerome was one of the great doctors of the church> b archaic : a person competent by reason of skill and knowledge to teach or expound authoritatively a subject or field of knowledge; broadly : a person who teaches or expounds something -- used with of c : a person who has earned one of the highest academic degrees (as a PhD) conferred by a university usually by spending several years in advanced study of a specialized field, by writing an acceptable dissertation, and by passing numerous rigorous examinations d : a person awarded an honorary doctorate (as an LLD or LittD) by a college or university
2 : one skilled or specializing in healing arts: a : a practitioner of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine b : a person who has completed a course of study in one of these fields and been duly licensed to practice his profession c : PHYSICIAN -- distinguished from surgeon d : a medicine man in a primitive culture; broadly : any practitioner (as a rainmaker or shaman) of mysterious or magic arts in such a culture
3 archaic slang : a loaded die"
There are a few more lesser meanings.
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* Psychology Dept Minnesota State University *
* 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 *
* http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html *
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