[HPFGU-OTChatter] Joanne Rowling's Doctorates

[Coble, Katherine]

Shaun and Lynn Discuss Doctorates:




> On 13 May 2003 at 1:52, Ladi lyndi wrote:
> 
> > Lynn:
> > 
> > It happens in the US.   I know a minister who had
> > a GED and got an honorary doctorate for his work
> > with drug addicts who signed everything after
> > that with "Dr."   
> 
> 
> But there's one overriding issue here, and that is *UNLESS* the person
> possessing the 
> Honourary Doctorate chooses to use the title Doctor, the issue does not
> arise at all.
> 
Mycropht says:

Hey. It took my 5 years of watching "The Cosby Show" to realize that the
Educational Consultant they used who called himself "William H. [?] Cosby
Jr. Ed.D" was Bill Cosby flaunting his honorary doctorate. I thought it was
his father. Imagine using your Honorary Doctorate to score a job as a
consultant.  Oh well.   

My father has an earned doctorate, and has never called himself "Doctor".
His closest male friend, however, has an honorary degree conferred by a
college without a Grad school (I didn't know they could do that) and insists
that that everyone call him Doctor.

Mycropht
(Not a Doctor, but I _have_ been a patient before.)

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