Professor

[Barmaid]

A good mate of mine has recently been under the care of a consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital. This chap is now a Professor. What does one do/achieve in order to become a Professor? My friend asked me this on the phone and I had to say "no idea"!

[pastafreak]

Here you go Sqad....you learn something new every day...lol

http://www.sciencemus...e/barbersurgeons.aspx

I had to look it up-I did a history of modern medicine course years ago-so I needed to double check..;-))
Reading that-I wonder when you last had to perform an enema....(eeek)

[Sqad]

pasta....LOL....what an excellent link.

In the USA all the surgeons are Drs as they do not have the history associated with medicine as in the UK.

I will whisper this, as the Brits think that the NHS and it's doctors were the best in the world.....and they still thinks so.

BUT Americans like Mike de Bakey, Denton Cooley were miles ahead of the Brits in heart surgery...the House brothers in Los Angeles led the world in ear surgery....streets ahead of the Brits and Hughlings Jackson was the father of nuerosurgery.

Be proud to be an American.

[pastafreak]

Oh-I am Sqad...and since all my years here make me half-Brit-I'm proud of that also.;-)

[Barmaid]

Fredpuli gets best answer for acknowledging what no man has ever done before (without legal argument in front of a Judge). I am right.

[FredPuli43]

Thank you, Barmaid. It should be a fact judicially noted; requiring no further proof; that you are always right. This may take some time; it took Alfred Denning some thirty years before it was acknowledged in his case !

[Bazile]

Consultants , who dont wield the knife , are not Mr's , but Dr's

[bednobs]

or miss. Women can be surgeons, ya know!

[boxtops]

I'd argue some of these definitions - in my hospital experience, the surgeons are Mr and the consultant physicians are Dr. They are equal but in different branches of medicine.