[lit-ideas] Re: surgeons, Mister was Re: Re: "H. P. Grice, MA (Oxon)"
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:37:14 +0000 (GMT)
Thank you for clearing this up.
Donal
--- On Mon, 13/4/09, Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] surgeons, Mister was Re: Re: "H. P. Grice, MA (Oxon)"
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, 13 April, 2009, 1:10 PM
>
>
> noting first off that there is a practice in
> > the medical profession whereby when a doctor becomes
> a
> > consultant they are no longer addressed as
> Dr.So&So but
> > as Mr. (actually it occurs to me, are female
> consultants
> > referred to as Ms., Miss, Mrs. etc.?;
>
> Not all consultants, only surgeons. (Female surgeons
> are indeed called Miss etc..) That's because till the middle
> of the 19th century surgeons didn't have to go to university
> and some didn't even have to take an exam, but physicians
> had to take a degree, which was Doctor of Medicine.
>
> http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/patient_information/faqs/surgeons.html
>
> Judy Evans Cardiff UK
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