As for psychologists, in my state, they can’t practice without a PhD. And they are called, as they should be, “Dr.”

Please read more carefully before writing comments about what you think a person in my position should or shouldn’t hold as an opinion. My opinions are supported by the literature and facts.

I am really surprised that someone in your position carries the opinion you do without checking your facts.

That said, you state that someone who has done a four-year stint at some chiropractic college has the same privilege. I have a bachelor’s degree in music, which is actually a pretty tough row to hoe. I’ll start calling myself “Doctor” now.

I’m really surprised that anyone in your position carries this opinion.

In the UK and other countries with the British healthcare system as a model, they aren’t called “Dr.” They are called “Mr.”

1) Only Britian uses the “British healthcare system” as a model. And, frankly, even Scotland has a different healthcare model to England. The healthcare models of Britain, Norway, France, Canada, New Zealand and Germany are as different from each other as they are from that of America.

2) I am almost certain that I’ve always called my (British) doctors “Dr” rather than “Mr”. And a quick look at a random page of NHS doctors seems to confirm it.

I have no problem with calling them “Dr.” or anyone else who has earned a degree or license that allows you to be called “Dr.” I have a problem with their not according me or chiropractors or anyone else so entitled by the same title. I’m not big on being called “Dr.”, I assure you. The only time I insist is when an MD insists on calling me by my first name and won’t allow me to do the same.

I’m delighted to see you are in nursing school. I hope you will work your way up to Dr. Nurse someday. We need bright young men and women to lead our profession in these troubled times.

With apologies for getting off the topic here. It just seemed to me the point of many posts here wasn’t the value of chiropracty, but the use of the title, which they are allowed to use most everywhere.

I have a PhD and some people refuse to call me “Dr.”, because I’m a nurse. I never try to introduce myself to patients as “Dr.” and, if it comes up, I explain what my PhD is in. I will say this, a PhD is a higher degree than a MD is. Degrees are ranked and academic degrees rank higher than practice degrees. The PhD is academic. The MD is practice.

A chiropractor is a doctor. I am a doctor. A physician is a doctor. We all earned the right to be so called.

And what the hell is the deal with refusal to address chiropractors by the term “doctor”? It’s an academic distinction, not a medical one. In a few years, I intend to pursue a Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies. When I complete it, would anyone consider not calling me Dr. Logan simply on the basis that I don’t have a medical degree?

I then asked how mankind was able to survive without the services of Moses and Christ for the tens of thousands of years before these two guys appeared on this planet and showed us how we were born into original sin and and how we could be saved from it through the grace of their deity, who in the old testament is portrayed as a petty and sadistic son of a bitch.

(In my initial survey course on the history of western civilization during my freshman year at the University of Southern California in 1956, we were told how Ikhnaton, an Egyptian pharaoh, made fundamental progress in the development of religion by coming up with the concept of monotheism, as if it were not equally superstitious to believe in one god as it is to believe in a pantheon of them.

(This demonstrates the hidden religious bias and the ethnocentrism in much of our traditional humanities curriculum, which now has been reduced because of the student rebellion that began at Stanford University not all that many years ago.)

Vive les étudiants de Stanford! Vive leur rebellion!

Harleigh Kyson Jr.