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[-] Ghostie21@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Prior to the start of modern medicine there was massive distrust with anyone who tried to treat people, as many of these were scams. When MDs started to actually understand health they started cooping the term doctor to instill trust since people knew that meant the person had been professionally educated, then they also managed to get laws passed so while anyone could call themselves a healer, only trained professionals could call themselves MDs. Eventually, doctor came to mean MD in English instead of PhD.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Never knew that. Interesting story.

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