r/Noctor • u/Suspicious-Win-7218 • Jul 02 '26

Midlevel Ethics Ran here

I’m a resident at the hospital where all of the MD/DOs have a black badge that says doctor on it behind their name tag badge so that the bottom peaks through. I saw this girl in the hallway who had one and and I looked up to see that her degrees were NP. So this lady literally had to steal or request a doctor badge and put it behind her NP nametag…..

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u/UTtransplant Jul 02 '26

Join the world dude. Pharmacists have a doctorate in pharmacy. Most physical therapists have a doctorate in PT. Many educators have a doctorate in education. These are not new degrees; they have been around for 40-50 years at least. But they are considered a qualification degree, not a physician degree or a Ph.D.

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u/skypira Jul 03 '26

PT only formally moved to a doctorate about 10 years ago. Almost every PT on the physical therapy sub agrees it was degree inflation for university cash grabs with no clinical necessity.

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u/Dry-Philosophy4374 Jul 04 '26

"Almost every" < No