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MR SURGEON Holders of FRCS (and Membership - MRCS) qualifications lose their title of Doctor, reverting to Mr, Mrs or Miss. This is a hangover from times past when surgeons were not qualified doctors as they are today and were simply skilled tradesmen, amputating limbs or removing bladder stones. Note that in the 1500s, the colleges of Barbers and Surgeons was one and the same, as many people practised both before surgery became a more skilled and separate profession. An alternative explanation that has been offered for this is the section of the Hippocratic Oath that runs "I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgement and never do harm to anyone," - surgery by its implicit nature does harm to the patient, so the surgeon was not considered worthy of the title doctor. Again, this is an ancient practice, that has remained to this day even though it has no real grounding. It is also important to recall that the use of Mr. as a courtesy title for all men is a relatively recent invention, and implied a larger degree of status in past years than at present. Compare Esquire . |
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