Saturday 24 December 2011

If Dr. Lunn Swe only blogs, he is Mr. Lunn Swe!

Checked Inbox but since I do not get any tips, I tried
to see blogs and found Dr. Lunn Swe blog. I wished
he is a fake doctor so that I can get another member
to my hall of shame. But it turned out to be a medical
doctor and not academic (PhD) doctor. MBBS degree
is a bachelor degree, it is a professional degree similar
to BDS, BVS, BCom, LLB or BE degrees but MBBS
is short form of two degrees as it is MB+BS bachelor
of medicine and bachelor of surgery. Physicians are
addressed as "Doctors" because he will treat you and
hope he can cure your illness, so to make him or her
feel better, you call them "Dr.". So the conclusion is
that Dr. Lunn Swe is not Dr. Lunn Swe but medical
Doctor Lunn Swe as he is a bachelor degree holder.
If he earned MBBS, if he is working as a physician,
he is allowed to be called himself as a Dr. as it is
permissible in British derived Burmese laws. But in
UK, a dentist (those with BDS) or vets (those with
BVS) are not allowed to call themselves as Doctors.
They have to address as Mister. And a person who
has earned MBBS but if he is working as a surgeon
(no physician) is not allowed to call himself as "Dr."
as only Physicians are allowed to use the term "Dr.".
That means the term Dr. is not earned because you
have earned a bachelor degree but you are addressed
as "Dr. Phin Khaung" because you are supposed to
treat and cure the patient.

In that regard, if Dr. Lun Swe only blogs and if he
were not practising as a physician, then he should be
called or addressed himself as "Mr. Lunn Swe, MBBS".

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