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[–] [email protected] 108 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

though some debate its use for non-medical fields.

Those "some" are the ones who don't know that "doctor" has been used to refer to academics for literally hundreds of years and that its usage to refer to physicians has only been relatively recently.

Of course, I'm assuming the venn diagram of those people and the people who don't know why Jill Biden is a doctor is just one solid circle.