"When was the last time you saw a doctor?"
"Oh, just recently, when I got some Tylenol."
"Why did the doctor tell you to take Tylenol?"
"No, he didn't tell me to take it. I asked him where it was, and he showed me."
"You went to a doctor's office, and a doctor examined you?"
"No, you asked me when I saw a doctor, and I'm telling you."
"What kind of a doctor did you see?"
"The doctor who worked at the drug store."
"Do you mean the pharmacist?"
"I don't know."
"The doctor examined you?"
"No! I keep telling you. The doctor told me where the Tylenol was."
"I think you're talking about a pharmacist. That's not a doctor."
"Well how am I supposed to know?"
"Doctors don't work in the drug store."
"Then he shouldn't be wearing a white coat and pretending he's a doctor."
Monday, May 24, 2010
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Great story. Actually, the pharmacists who work in the clinical research departments of drug companies mascarade as "doctors" all the time. I think it's ridiculous. The ones who are Pharm D's I suppose can legitimately call themselves "Dr." but they are knowingly taking advantage of people who don't know the difference which isn't right. --Miss__Tina
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should have asked the last time he saw a "physician". Physician's don't have a monopoly on the title "doctor" (or on white coats), regardless of what the commenters in this thread may think.
ReplyDelete@Yossi - I seriously doubt that a pharmacist at CVS was pretending to be a doctor.
Yes but -
ReplyDeleteThe patient had a specific question, and the 'doctor' guy was able to answer it.
Seriously, I think you need to be more specific than 'when did you see a doctor'. Something more like 'When did you last have a medical examination' might have been a more useful question.
Ian is right, if the pharmacist has a PharmD he is a doctor. An english professor at the local university is a doctor. Your faulty generalizations don't extend to the rest of the world.
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