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Originally Posted by theBadCormorant
Are you British ? As curious as it may seem, very eminent surgeons in the UK drop the doctor bit and revert back to being known as Mr, Mrs or Miss - Apparently it is quite an honour for fellow doctors to bestow this status on another of their colleagues. So if you are in the UK and Mr Murray is a surgeon, then "Mr Murray" may be someone who is well worth listening to.
This apparent 'down grading' of status from 'Dr' to 'Mr' goes back many centuries to the days when Barbers carried out surgery; Doctors have to take the hippocratic oath "to do no harm" and as surgery in the 16th century often done great harm, doctors needed to stop being doctors before wielding the knife.
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Yeah it's the UK i'm from. Tried numerous times to contact the original Ortho I seen but still not heard back from him. I have now booked a consultation with a chiropractor next week so hopefully he'll be more helpful than the useless NHS.