I have no objections to people calling me Ruth, and as I have got older,
increasingly call my patients by their first names. In my other business
dealings, when people are not aware of my medical qualifications, I always get
called by my first name.
But what I REALLY HATE is being called Doctor Ruth .....
or (worse still) Doctor Livingstone I presume .................
And my husband (whose real name is Dr Fields) HATES
being called Mr Livingstone
Conversely, I get REALLY MAD when called Mrs Fields
(and the only person who calls me that these days is my mother, who probably
does it deliberately !)
--
Ruth Livingstone
http://www.stamford.co.uk/littlesurgery
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From: [log in to unmask] on behalf of Andrew Herd
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 1998 07:38
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: First Name Basis
Thought for a moment we might have to black ball him from the list, there.
A
-----Original Message-----
From: Dr M Trowell <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 25 February 1998 23:40
Subject: Re: First Name Basis
>Yes, but I gather that they call him "Risk" rather than Daddy......... ;-)
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>Dr GM Trowell
>Highbridge Medical Centre
>Highbridge
>Somerset TA9 3YA
>01278 783220
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