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Re:Apple and LaTeX by thebooktocome on Sunday July 02, 2017 @10:37AM (#14682653)
It's a bit in vogue these days for PhD non-MD to forgo the title in informal settings. Refusing to do so can appear egotistical.
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Re:Apple and LaTeX by KGIII on Sunday July 02, 2017 @12:48PM (#14683222)
Whilst this veers off-topic, I don't use the formal title, even though I have earned the right to do so. It's actually not just a matter if humility. I find that, when introduced with the title, people ask me for medical advice.

I am a mathematician, not a physician.

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Re:Apple and LaTeX by omegote on Friday July 14, 2017 @04:30AM (#14768395)
I think the opposite. It's unfair for medics without a PhD to be called doctor. If you have a PhD you've earned all the rights to be called doctor and to use the preffix whenever you feel like. I would if I had a PhD.
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