[NPInfo] WSJ Health Blog: "Dr. Nurse"

[Joyce Fontana]

Agree with you Kate.
I do not have PhD on my id at the nsg home where I practice. And never 
address myself as Dr. in the facility as few in this rural southwestern town 
would appreciate the title and the residents would be confused although 
several do call me "Doc". Colorado does protect the title for doctorally 
prepared nurses. But I suspect I may be the only nurse with a PhD within a 
350 mile radius.
.
However, I always refer to MDs, DO's as physicians, never doctors.

Joyce
Durango, CO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kate Hammill" <beachhorsedesolate at yahoo.com>
To: "NP Info" <npinfo at nurse.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [NPInfo] WSJ Health Blog: "Dr. Nurse"


> The proper name for them is "physician".   "Doctor" is
> a broader term encompassing the Doctor of Philosophy,
> among other things, and is owned and used properly  by
> thousand who are non-physicians.  Physicians have no
> leg to stand on that this term belongs to only them
> and we should not let them get away with it--I never
> use the term "doctor" to describe them--always
> "physician" (and usually add "heal thyself" as an
> aside.)  Boy, its' a full time job, isn't it, just
> keeping up with the dishonesty and disingenuousness of
> this gang.
> Kate Hammill
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- David Mittman <dmittman at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> When you are a physician you feel that you are
>> captain of the ship
>> (and in many ways you are).
>> Others come along that SAY that they can do what you
>> do........
>> They say that you do not need to go to medical
>> school to be a good
>> clinician...............
>> And now some of these people want to be referred to
>> as "Doctor".
>> I fully understand how physicians would at a minimum
>> feel that
>> patients will be confused (and they will be) and at
>> a maximum, how
>> there will soon be no difference between others who
>> did not do it
>> "the right way" as they did which to them is the
>> ONLY way one can do it.
>> I can nfullkyfullky see how threatening this is to
>> docs generally.
>> That being said if you have a doctorate in a
>> clinical area, you
>> earned it and should use it.
>> Dave
>>
>> On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:09 AM, SGrtWhite at aol.com
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>>
> _http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/02/say-hello-to-dr-nurse/?
>>
>> > mod=WSJBlog_
>> >
>>
> (http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/04/02/say-hello-to-dr-nurse/?
>>
>> > mod=WSJBlog)
>> >
>> > An article in today's WSJ Health Blog about
>> doctorate degrees and
>> > nurse
>> > practitioners. Gotta love the physician comment:
>> >
>> > "Also, since these nurses with a doctorate can use
>> "Dr." some
>> > physicians
>> > worry that patients could become confused. "Nurses
>> with an advanced
>> > degree are
>> > not the same as doctors who have been to medical
>> school," says
>> > Roger Moore,
>> > incoming president of the American Society of
>> Anesthesiologists."
>> >
>> > See? Our goal is to try and "confuse" patients
>> into thinking that
>> > we are
>> > physicians. Please!
>> >
>> > Stephen
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros.
>> Watch the video
>> > on AOL
>> > Home.
>> >
>>
> (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?
>>
>> > video=15&ncid=aolhom00030000000001)
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