So about the 300 “doctors” crying about Joe Rogan
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Here in Germany a PhD gives you the right to call yourself "Dr. X" (lit. doctor X).
Finishing your normal medical degree doesn't give you any special title. But the average population expects their "doctor" to have the title, right?
So everyone in the medical field gets a PhD to get the right to call themselves "Dr.".
As you can imagine the requirements of medical PhDs are utterly shit in Germany. 6months 20pages. Congratulations you pass!
Well in America people get Doctorates of theology and call themselves doctor. The requirements are as determined by a religious institution, and not necessarily one with any particular accreditation either. Many charlatan preachers running around calling themselves Doctor.
"Doctor" Ibram X Kendi, "Doctor" Martin Luther King Jr., etc
In the United States, finishing your medical degree give you the title of MD, ie Medicine Doctor, or DO (Doctor of Osteopathic medicine).
In laymen's speech, "doctor," as a noun, usually means a medical doctor here.