is a surgeon Dr xxx or Mr xxx?

[teag1rl]

Does anyone else think Surgeons are called 'Mr' whatever their name is not 'Dr' whatever...? It will help settle a difference of opinion!

[Octavius]

A article here:
http://www.pjonline.com/pdf/comment/pj_2005060 4_onlooker.pdf

[Quizmonster]

Click here /A> for previous AnswerBank responses on this matter.

[whiffey]

The convention is that qualified surgeons are called Mr.

Incidentally, the title Dr is usually a social convention, in that many medical doctors do not actually have a doctorate, e.g. PhD, D Litt, etc.

A consultant may be MA, MBBS, FRCS - very highly qualified - but there is no actual doctorate anywhere in there.

[JeanC]

Only surgeons are called 'Mr'.

[funkymoped]

i was always under the impretion a "Mr" was more highly qualified than a "Dr".

dont think iit would offend a Mr if you called him Dr.

would a female in the medical profession be a "Mr" or is there a seperate title for the fairer sex ???

[JeanC]

A consultant surgeon (Mr) is not more highly qualified than a consultant physician (Dr) - a consultant female surgeon would probably be known as 'Miss'.

[Pippa68]

Ward you are very naughty!

I don't know...

What I do know is that consultant obstetricians are titled 'Mr'.

[kazza12345]

if the surgeon in question is a woman, they are either called miss,mrs or ms depending on their marital staus

[Froggy_Queen]

A surgeon can be a Dr but if they are a consultant, and therefore higher qualified, they will be referred to as Mr (or Mrs or Miss). They will also have more letters after their name.

Most will get highly offended if you refer to them as Dr as they've put in a lot of extra work to get the qualifications needed for them to become a consultant.

I used to be a PA for a surgical consultant, I know how precious they can be!!

[teag1rl]

Thanks, will have a sqiuz at the info, Thankyou for all your replies, and lol at w~m's women answer!!

[teag1rl]

I did bother to check through previous results before posting my q but the link Quizmonster gave did not come up. Honeslty I did, cos it really annoys me when people repeat the same questions!!

[andrea_h]

From Wikipedia..........

Those who possess a doctoral degree are generally entitled to call themselves "Doctor", although restrictions apply in some jurisdictions.

In the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and other areas whose culture was recently linked to the United Kingdom, the title Doctor generally applies to both academic and clinical environment. "Registered medical practitioners" usually do not have a doctorate; rather, they have a Bachelor of Medicine. Cultural conventions exist, clinicians who are Members or Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons are an exception. As an homage to their predecessors, the barber surgeons, they prefer to be addressed as Mr, Mrs, Ms or Miss, even if they do hold a doctorate. This is first because they have normally achieved another degree - that of Master of Surgery (MCh from the Latin magister chirurgiae) from a university. When a medically-qualified person passes the notoriously difficult examinations which enable them to become a member of one or more of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and become "MRCS", it is customary for them to drop the "doctor" prefix and take up "mister". This rule applies to any doctor of any grade who has passed the appropriate exams, and is not the exclusive province of consultant-level surgeons. In recent times, other surgically-orientated specialists, such as gynaecologists, have also adopted the "mister" prefix. Physicians, on the other hand, when they pass their "MRCP" examinations, which enable them to become members of the Royal College of Physicians, do not drop the "Doctor" prefix and remain doctor, even when they are consultants. In the United Kingdom the status and rank of consultant surgeons with the MRCS, titled "mister", and consultant physicians with the MRCP, titled "doctor", is identical. Surgeons in the USA and elsewhere remain steadfastly "doctor".

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