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⌈ Secret Post #2866 ⌋

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I don't know if I can explain this so it makes sense, but to me it kind of depends on what the nature of the relationship is. He can call you Lorraine and you should call him Dr. Last Name because in this situation, you're the one relying on his expertise (for some reason I'm blanking on a good way to phrase that but hopefully it makes sense). I'm not sure what your Ph.D is in, but let's say he came to you for help/advice/whatever would make sense in that field...in that context, you're the expert and he's the one coming to you, so you can call him John and he should call you Dr. Last Name.

I thought I mentioned this example in the original post (but apparently not) but some of the people who call him by his first name are doctors as well, so I guess I get it, but to me it still seems slightly "improper". Like, ok, they're both doctors, but it depends on which way the relationship goes...if he's their patient and they're his doctor, then they call him by his first name and they call him Dr. Last Name...but if he's the doctor and they're the patient he calls them by their first name and they call him Dr. Last Name. That probably doesn't make any sense outside my head, though.

I also think it's super weird to see nurses in their twenties calling sixty year old women by their first names. I fully acknowledge this may be a Southern thing, but it seems super patronizing to me.

I'm in the south, too, but maybe it's more a generational thing? Nurses in their twenties calling sixty year old women by their first names doesn't seem at all weird to me, but it sounds like it's maybe related to the whole "respect your elders" thing where you shouldn't call older people by their first names? I wasn't raised that way at all so it's weird to me when other people find it weird but it seems like lots of people were raised that way.

This was an interesting convo, Nonnie. :) I appreciated reading your perspective.

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Re: Calling doctors by their first names

Re: Calling doctors by their first names