Sir-There ceftainly is confusion in the multiplicity of doctorates. A pretty well-known story tells of a call for a doctor to attend a glamorous film star on hoard ship, atid a doctor of divinity being the first to reach her cabin, But there.is
really no point in raising this issue in the present discussion. When a man is ill, "doctor" means a medical practitioner and no one else. If "No False Colours" says to a friend: "I’m gaing. to see my doctor," he knows perfectly. well that the other will understand him he won't think of a dentist or a phil ler, I am sure your correspondent would’ not dream of saying: "I’m going to see my medical adviser." If he did he would speak as a pedant, not as a man.
A.
M.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 726, 12 June 1953, Page 5
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