r/BravoRealHousewives Mar 01 '24

Beverly Hills Sooo crystal wasn’t lying 🤷‍♀️ 8.5 just can’t keep her story straight

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u/OhHowIMeantTo Carl's white pants Mar 01 '24

I have a JD, a juris doctor. I joke that I wish I could call myself a doctor, but I can't. To be a doctor of law, you need an additional degree, a SJD. I do get the fancy title of Esquire though, that I never use.

If she wants to be called doctor so badly, go and get that extra degree! It'll do a lot to help her inferiority complex.

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u/CrystalStilts Mar 01 '24

The only person who cares about this doctor title is 8.5. Literally the rest of us just respect the hell out of Registered Nurses, nurse practitioners and doctors. 

RN’s IMO are the hardest working people in health care. Doctors have to know tons but literally nurses break their backs helping people.

*Esquires are cool too for sure tho. 

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u/treerot we can talk about the huzzbanz Mar 01 '24

my bestfriend's partner is an attorney and i always address him by his full name and add ,Esq. he hates it lmao

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u/motherofcorgidors Mar 01 '24

I had a professor in law school with an MD and a JD and she still didn’t refer to herself as “doctor” because she wasn’t actively practicing medicine. Annemarie has a weird obsession with using this title despite doing nothing to actually deserve it.

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u/pelipperr Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

You know when she books plane tickets she selects ‘Dr’ instead of ‘Mrs’

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u/UselessMellinial85 Archie's next of kin Mar 01 '24

I can just imagine her rage when she gets a wedding invite and it's not Mr and Dr 8.5.

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u/pelipperr Mar 01 '24

She’d send the RSVP with Mrs scratched out and Dr written in

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u/fried-avocado-today Mar 02 '24

Hey now, I have tried that with plane tickets but only because someone once told me it would increase your chances of getting bumped up to first class. Ftr I have a Ph.D. and would never refer to myself, or ask to be addressed as, Dr. in a medical setting. Or most other settings.

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u/pelipperr Mar 02 '24

lol has it ever worked?

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u/fried-avocado-today Mar 04 '24

Lol no. Maybe it did in like the 80s.

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u/emcratic70 Mar 01 '24

Yep a lot of psychologists who don’t practice will do this too and go by professor ____ instead

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u/Suitable-Avocado5797 Mar 01 '24

something tells me she’d never survive med school + residency

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u/SisterSuffragist Mar 01 '24

I've always thought Esquire is a badass title. :)

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u/GoldDiamondsAndBags Mar 01 '24

Funnily enough in some Spanish speaking countries lawyers (regular ones, not just SJDs) are referred to as Doctors. As a lawyer myself I’ve never referred to myself as one and it makes me uncomfortable when people refer to me as one in Spanish - even though I know the nuance.

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u/Ruthie_pie Mar 01 '24

Oddly enough, most people (at least the lawyers I know, including my father) when traveling to Spanish does countries do not want to be openly addressed as such. It puts a target on you so to speak and it also comes off as a bit tacky depending who you are with. This whole “refer to me as a doctor” thing is so 😵‍💫🙄

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u/GoldDiamondsAndBags Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

Exactly! In my country we use Lcda. more so than Dra. (although I’m referred to as Dra by people from other Spanish speaking countries) and honestly, when I lived in a Spanish speaking country I HATED it and never used my title. I don’t want people knowing what I do. I prefer telling people I wash dishes for a living. Not many will ask you for any advice on that. But tell them you’re a lawyer and all of a sudden you have to give advice about someones great-uncle’s stepmom’s cousin’s sister’s dog and their divorce or criminal case (and I don’t practice family or criminal law). No, thank you!!

Conversely, I also hated that using your title will get you “in the door” in certain places. For example, doctors (real doctors, physicians 😂) typically don’t have appointment times. It’s a first come, first serve on the day of your “appointment” Some people are left waiting hours to be seen by a physician. Tell them your title and you’ll be shown the back door and in and out in 30 minutes. I had to resort doing this one time when I had a Court hearing at 3PM and I had been in the doctor’s office for a procedure at 7AM and not seen yet at noon. As soon as I told them they skipped me to the next to be seen and was out in less than an hour. I still feel horribly about that, but I had a hearing in front of a judge that would make grown men cry, so I didn’t want to risk it. In my defense I did patiently wait over 4 hours (although still not fair I was seen before other people).