That's a really ironic opening you have there. Why don't you listen to your own advice and let it go? It appears others in the thread have.
Because I have devoted all of two posts to the topic. With this to be my last. I'm not abnormally obsessed with the issue. You've devoted dozens. There's a big difference.
The belief of several people, heck one hundred million Americans didn't create WMD in Iraq. Belief in itself doesn't constitute "right" from "wrong".
Um, totally off topic...
If you are going to use "redundant", then I will no longer challenge that (although truthfully it isn't - you can be an MBBC, an MD, or a DO, and STILL be a family physician). But if you use "wrong" in association with character flaws of the "perpetrator", then that implies a fundamental error/sin in its use, which is beyond provability of you or anyone who frequents this forum.
Oh, and BTW,
Dr. John Doe, MBBC, isn't calling himself doctor twice.
Dr. John Does, MBBC doesn't exist. Perhaps you are thinking of the MBBS? If so, in the U.S. someone with an MBBS is granted the right to use the MD designation after their name, so moot point. In the U.K. Dr. John Doe, MBBS, Surgeon actually ceases to call himself doctor completely. Totally different conventions. I assumed we are discussing the U.S.
Again, you don't know their reasons for using the "redundancy". Why assume malice? Maybe they aren't arrogant at all. Perhaps they are so insecure about themselves, that they have to put Dr. John Doe, MD just to feel adequate.
The point is you don't know. On an issue like this, why can't you let people do what they want? I don't care if my next door neighbor writes Dr. and titles. And why should you?
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