PAs and NPs for Primary Care

WayOutWestMom
Mon, 17 Nov 2025 03:05:04 +0000

ucbalumnus:

I once had a college instructor mention declining to indicate the “Dr.” when given the option of “Mr.”, “Ms.”, etc. for something like an airline ticket because of the possibility that indicating “Dr.” may result in being asked to help in a medical emergency.

This practice is often followed by physicians who decline to identify themselves as Doctor on a flight because they don’t want to to spend the entire flight listening to some stranger’s cousin/aunt/brother/son’s weird symptoms and medical issues. Legally they cannot comment on a person’s medical conditions or diagnoses unless they first establish a doctor-patient relationship with the individual in question.