The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7248 p648
10 May 2003

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The Profession

Why can't we be called doctors?

From Mr L. David, MRPharmS

My brother is a general practitioner (retired) with qualifications of BSc, MB BCh. My dentist has the qualification of BDS. Both are called "doctor" — the former by custom the latter by a recent European ruling. My fellow pharmacists have the same level of qualification, BPharm or BSc(Pharm) and, like dentists, in some European countries we are called doctors.

Perhaps the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council, instead of pursuing a new charter, should pursue a new title. If it did so, the Government may then wake up to the fact we are not, in the main, pill-counting shopkeepers but professional pharmacists.

Leo David
Heston, Middlesex

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