Dr Frankenstein. No DR Who

Ha, ha E you made my day with posting the piccie of my fave doc !! When did Mental Nurse get to ’speak’ with the learned Time Lord ???
Seems Crippen is only recycling his usual arguement.I think for once he does have a point with the Dr Nurse thing.Mind you we do have the Physicians Assistants over here, so it’s just a matter of time before they are taking on more tasks.

I have got to get me one of them screwdrivers.

But a time machine’s a bad idea. Managers could see us doing infinite amounts of work eacj day, then . . .

Can I just clarify the point that in the episode “Utopia” (third-to-last episode in the second David Tennant series) the Doctor did in fact state that he is a “doctor of everything”.

Dear God, I’m such a bloody geek sometimes.

If “doctor” only means medical doctors, I fear there may be some clinical psychologists out there who might raise an objection. That said, although I’ve no objection to nurses getting a PhD, if I obtained one myself I’d probaby avoid calling myself “doctor” on the ward, just to avoid confusion, and also because I’m not keen on people waving their academic credentials around for kudos’ sake.

Zarathustra RMN, BN(Hons), MA, BA(Hons)

I’d first like to ask what the Doctor is going to use that thing in his hand for? Scary thoughts abounding.

Secondly, what a dish. He can check my heartbeat any time he wants and I wouldn’t even mind telling him about my childhood/adolescence (well the fun bits)!

I’d do him too Excellent.

Dr McCoy > Dr Who

Strange… coming from a more academic background, I’ve always been assured that *real* doctors have PhDs and medical practitioners just get an honorary title.

As a virus researcher acquaintance of mine once said: biologists cure patients, doctors just diagnose and hand out pills.

(grin, duck, run)

Well in that case he’d be dismayed at my good self as I too am a Doctor…. of Computer Science that is. As is hubby. Neither of us uses the “title” outside official communications (bank, payroll, govt forms) or stuff relevant to our respective fields - and of course when writing letters to complain about late trains.

It’s considered a bit naff in university circles to insist on using your title all the time, mainly as in an academic department almost everyone has a PhD. Unless you’re “professor” of course .

Also, there’s an etiquette on the subject of when it is or isn’t appropriate for a PhD to call themselves “Dr” - firstly there is an obligation not to impersonate a medic or allow that to happen by accident, for obvious health and safety reasons.

Checking in for flights is an example - best not to use the “Dr” title then, or explain to the checking agent that you’re not a medic. I have to do the latter for business trips, as the company travel agent uses payroll records verbatim so the “Dr” bit goes on. It’s a bit embarassing explaining all this to the checking agent, but preferable to someone expecting me to perform first aid on a passenger 35,000ft up, halfway across the Atlantic, only then for them to have to go back and find someone else, losing maybe 20-30s of time that really isn’t available in such a situation.

Secondly, there’s also a need not to appear to have authority in a field not related to your own. So, let’s say you’ve got a PhD in microbiology, but you’re talking to someone about your interest in English Lit, you should clarify that your PhD is not in English Lit if the subject comes up. This is more relevant if, say, the local paper is asking you about the drainage ditch outside your house and your PhD is in Italian Linguistics, but seem to think you’re an expert on all things engineering - you have an obligation to correct them - rather than what you say in the pub. None of this is legally binding, it’s just convention, other than the intentional impersonation bit, which is illegal for everybody.

I believe Ben Goldacre has been giving Gillian McKeith a primer on this subject for quite some time now .

We just hope the postman doesn’t knock on the door looking for advice on a rash or a cough or something . Just press your reset button and reboot. Oh wait, that only works for for Data on Star Trek… (Just messing, in case anyone isn’t 100% crystal clear we would immediately tell the postman that unless his problems were computer-related he needed to go find a GP!).

Just reading through the comments thread of that Dr Crippen post, I notice there’s a junior doctor going under the name “hehehe” who’s trying to throw his weight about by insisting that nurses should clear away the used sharps for him.

Anyone using sharps is responsible for clearing them away themselves. Let’s see, what kind of nightmare scenario could result by juxtaposing the following three items:

1. A patient with Hepatitis B
2. A used syringe
3. An arrogant SHO who assumes that someone else will clear away aforementioned syringe for him

I seriously hope that “hehehe” is simply trolling, because if he’s not, then he’s just inadvertently admitted his sharps practice is unsafe.

One day Crippen`s alter ego, Dr. Feelgood, will have something positive to say.

Incidentally Z, there is a Dutch band called “Spock”, who sing songs entirely about Star Trek and science fiction. They’ve made something like 7 albums in 10 years. They are fun to see live too! Yes they are professional musicians/artists not sci-fi fan geeks.

Their two best known singles are “Dr McCoy” and “Never Trust a Klingon”.

Never trust a Klingon? That’s a little racist towards Lt Worf, I have to say.

I think these guys are definitely The Original Series devotees and have little time for STTNG. So Worf isn’t in the picture at all, I don’t think, they’d probably tell you to wait another 200 years.

Here’s a video on youtube of them performing it live. They are in a Swedish venue, so although the song is in English, the banter with the crowd is in heavily Dutch-accented Swedish (I _think_ - it’s not Dutch and it’s not German anyway), which is why I have no idea what they are going on about, but there are subtitles. The lyrics are on the “more info” section on youtube. The youtube comments are somewhat boneheaded, mind you.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

Here’s the original with a “video” made by a fan (the live version is fun but doesn’t do the song justice) - there’s no video as these guys don’t make anything like enough money to make one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....s&NR=1

Despite being completely daft, this band is a _lot_ of fun live. I saw them in 2005, I think, when they toured the UK.

And for something really bizarre, a trekkie filmed himself dancing to this song and put it up on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

Enjoy!

Dr Feelgood, Dr Hook and Dr John have all helped make me feel better….

Dr Indiana Jones, however, declined to comment as he was busy abseiling into a ruined Inca temple while dodging flying poison darts.