Letter D

Doctor

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In a medical context, any medical professional with an MD, a PhD, or any other doctoral degree.

The term doctor is quite nonspecific.

A doctor may, for example, be a physician, psychologist, biomedical scientist, dentist, or veterinarian.

In a nonmedical context, a professor of history might be addressed as doctor, an eminent theologian might be named a doctor of a church, and a person awarded an honorary doctorate by a college or university might also be called a doctor.

The word 'doctor' comes from the Latin 'docere' meaning to teach.

A doctor was a teacher, especially a learned or authoritative one.

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