Recently, I rarely see the title of Doctor of Medicine on a doctor’s business card.
In fact, I think the number of doctors who acquire it has decreased.
In my father’s generation, doctors seemed to have made every effort to obtain it.
There was even a person who received a doctoral degree by having a medical student help him with an experiment using rats, compiling basic experimental data unrelated to clinical practice.
Some of them went to the medical office of a university in Tokyo because they were local practitioners and became hospital directors.
Medicine is also a world of authoritative titles.
But I think it’s different these days.
From PhD, Specialist.
Registration as a specialist is necessary for medical practice, but a doctorate is an authoritative title.
Regardless of the original researcher, there is no need in the clinical setting.
Is it a social trend in which patients no longer appreciate authority?
Patients became more aware of their rights and became our customers.
I wonder if the doctor should be boastful or humble.
We need respect, gratitude, and honesty from each other.
Anyway, before I knew it, I had stopped looking at the medical doctor’s business card.
In the old days, a PhD was said to be like a grain of rice on the sole of your foot.
I can’t eat it even if I take it, but I feel bad if I don’t take it.
Can you make sense of it?
This means that even if you become a doctor, your salary will not increase and the number of patients will not increase.
I remembered something with my title.
Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, whose father was his doctor.
Mr. Fukuda’s business card did not include any title such as former Prime Minister.
It was because he had a strong sense of pride that no one in Japan knew of him as the prime minister.
He doesn’t need a title for himself.
How many people can say that with confidence?
I am proud and attached to the title of representative.
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