Titles / letters after your name

I checked out the situation with my relative to see if he was heading for a fall (mostly so I could laugh at him) but it appears that Dentist, chiropractors and one more could call themselves Doctor if they wanted to. That was according to Wikipedia anyway.

I still think that changing your credit cards to call yourelf doctor is a step too far though

BTW I got the MIB at Grenoble Graduate School of Business in the heart of the French Alps. It was hard work spending 1½ years there in my late 20s 😉

I used to use Diana Ross but got fed up of explaining myself all the time, so dont bother anymore.

As a rough general rule from my time in chemistry, the people who insisted on being referred to as “Dr” were the complete arses, the ones who thought they were far more important than they actually were.

One guy I worked with (who used to sign his name as Dr……, PhD) used to be quite chatty and friendly with me until he discovered that I was a mere MSc and then he hardly spoke to me again. It didn’t help when I got seconded to his team to sort out the situation resulting from him spectacularly screwing up a reaction that I’d done successfully a dozen times before.

On the other hand, my boss (one of the best chemists I’ve ever worked with) never used his Dr title.

Did anyone ever see any of the correspondence in the papers from that ACRE group who keep prostesting about the Etape Caledonia Sportive? The lead troublemaker in that always signed his name with a load of letters after it to sound impressive. One of them was ARCM (Associate of the Royal College of Music). That really is scraping the barrel!

“Neil Andrew Howe Fox (born 12 June 1961 in Harrow, London[1] England) is an English DJ and TV presenter, known for many years as Dr. Fox before he became “Foxy” in the 2000s. He is now known simply as “Neil Fox, M.D.”, even though he lacks any doctorate degree. He was a judge on Pop Idol, along with Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Nicki Chapman. He currently appears as himself (albeit judging a superhero talent show) in BBC Three sketch show The Wrong Door.”

BSc

If confronted with someone who is clearly fascinated by the letters after their own name I usually revert to using CPT after my name on my signature. It took one guy three months to work out what it was,,,,

I don’t think Dr Fox fixes people’s backs for £80 a session though does he?

oddjob, here it is straight from the horse’s mouth so to speak: General Chiropractic Council

Q8. Can chiropractors use the title ‘Dr’ when advertising?

A8.

The Committee of Advertising Practice’s (CAP) position is that advertisers who use the title ‘Dr’ should take care not to imply that they hold a general medical qualification. In general, CAP advises that if they do not possess such a qualification advertisers should not call themselves ‘Dr’. Chiropractors are therefore advised not to use the title ‘Dr’ in their advertisements or in any information targetted at patients.

When referring to themselves in, for example, print adverts, practice leaflets or websites, chiropractors who wish to use the courtesy title of ‘Dr’ should give their name followed by their qualification in brackets e.g. John Bloggs (Doctor of Chiropractic).

The CAP Copy Advice Team provides a free advice service and will check any advertising claims prior to publication. They can be contacted at advice@cap.org.uk or on 020 7492 2100 Monday to Friday from 9am to 6pm.

Credit cards and driving licences are fine, but misleading people in serious back trouble who want fixing by the best sounding professional they can afford really is something else.

I suppose it depends how much you like this relative but the way your posts read, and the GCC ‘guidance’ reads (and I notice it is referred to as ‘guidance’ as opposed to ‘code of conduct’ for other Allied Health Professionals) he either needs gently putting straight (did you see what i did there) or shopping to the GCC.

BEng, sone to be IEng, next for MSc and MICE

I can swim across the pool in my pyjamas and also passed my cycling proficency 1st time (Although I still crash all the time, so not too proficient)

KT1973 Dip SHit

Why are you all so obsessed with this?

There has been plenty of general hinting within the family about the Dr thing but he is convinced that it is OK and (more worryingly) seems to think that he deserves it.

Not really my problem thankfully, just confirms my opinion really.

Seeing the comment above, I am reminded that I am actually ARSM. Sounds a bit like arse dunnit? 😀

I just put RCD after my name if anyone asks tut and shake head as to indicate there complete lack of knowledge then reply “right clever dick”

Dr Anagallis BSc(hons), MRes, PhD

I will only respond to “Dr DrP P”.

That is all…

DrP

Quirrel – Chartered Uniformed Normalized Teacher

I get some strange looks though when I hand my business card over in its abbreviated form.

Quite a while ago now, I was working on site which necessitated a hotel stayover. I asked a peon to sort it out for me (cos I was actually on site when I realised it was going to spill to a second day) and the wag put my title down as “Lord” on the booking form.

Whilst I enjoyed my brief peerage, I don’t feel that the hotel afforded me the due degree of respect.

More seriously,

In my field I guess the closest thing would be “MCSE” and variations thereof. I don’t use these, because I never got around to getting the qualification. As far as I can tell, the only reason for me to do it would be so that my company could reach engineer targets for partner status and, well, put letters after its name.