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Written by F. Lawrence Caslin
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
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  It takes a lot of schooling to be a doctor. First you have to get your undergraduate degree, then go to graduate school, then get into med school. And because competition is so tough, you need almost perfect grades the whole way.
I have a lot of respect for doctors and all they do. I don't mind calling them "doctor." But the line has to be drawn somewhere.
I'm referring of course to pseudo-doctors. The "other doctors." These are the people who have gone to school for so many years that they have a doctorate. They're not what our society commonly calls a "doctor" (pediatrician, urologist, surgeon, psychologist, etc.)
 This schmuck is being given an Honorary Doctorate of Albania. What?
This so-called doctorate could be in 13th century Danish Literature. Or in Latin Aqueduct Architecture. Or in Pre-Diluvian Theology. Or Albania (check out the picture).
I know one such person who has a virtually useless degree. He insists on being referred to as "Dr. Last Name."
Sorry?
I might abide by the salutation if the guy had a degree in something respectable. But he doesn't. It's a useless degree. He was a professional student so long he got a specialized degree in something so inane that should civilization end tomorrow, he'd be on the bottom of the food chain.
Below a fast-food worker. Below a beauty school dropout. Below the guy who, at age forty, still pisses in his bed.
He's one of the "other doctors." |
F. Lawrence Caslin
