You get a bachelor’s degree in medicine, surgery, etc. But in the UK, Canada, and most countries elsewhere, the medical degree is a bachelor’s degree. This is obscured in the US because med students are required to have a separate bachelor’s degree as a prerequisite. Technically though, the medical degree was not and still isn’t a doctoral degree.
The medical guild, especially when it was quite a dodgy profession with very poor standards which was the case until the 20th century, insisted on being called doctors as a PR move to make themselves look better and more authoritative. But the original use of the title was for people with doctoral degrees. Medical doctors have appropriated and monopolized the “Dr.” title, so effectively that most people exclusively or mainly associate it with medicine. Biden’s questioner had made the query in a mild tone, but provoked an explosive response from Mr. Biden said, ”but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.” Mr. Biden acknowledged that in the testy exchange in New Hampshire, he had lost his temper. Biden said he had won such a competition, with a partner, in Kingston, Ontario, on Dec. He said the law school ”arranged for my first year’s room and board by placing me as an assistant resident adviser in the undergraduate school.”Īs for the moot court competition, Mr. Biden did not directly dispute this, but said he received a scholarship from the Syracuse University College of Law ”based in part on academics” as well as a grant from the Higher Education Scholarship Fund of the state of Delaware. Biden had gone to Syracuse ”on half scholarship based on financial need.”
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Biden said of his claim that he went to school on full academic scholarship: ”My recollection is – and I’d have to confirm this – but I don’t recall paying any money to go to law school.” Newsweek said Mr. ”My name was put up for that award by David Ingersoll, who is still at the University of Delaware.” ”With regard to my being the outstanding student in the political science department,” the statement went on. My reference to degrees at the Claremont event was intended to refer to these majors – I said ‘three’ and should have said ‘two.’ ” Mr. Biden said: ”I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. Biden, who attended the Syracuse College of Law and graduated 76th in a class of 85, acknowledged: ”I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school and my recollection of this was inaccurate.”Īs for receiving three degrees, Mr. Thus, this incident on the campaign trail in 1987: In general, the Bidens seem like people of run-of-the-mill IQs (e.g., Beau, the late Good Son, failed the admittedly tough Delaware bar exam three times) who are insecure about their merely normal brainpower, and overreact embarrassingly. Jagger, may I have your autograph” and tell them, “Address me only as ‘Sir Mick:’ For I have been knighted by Her Majesty.” Or maybe he does. Mick Jagger, I’m guessing, doesn’t stop people who say “Mr. Keep in mind that Jill Biden doesn’t have a Ph.D., she just has an Ed.D.: Doctor of Education. So-and-So.”īut insisting that other people call you Doctor, especially when you got a doctorate in Education (which 95% of the time is just a way to pad your pay from the public school district or community college), is pretty tacky. It adds a little color to life: e.g., I might write “Even Sir Mick has admitted that his lyrics for ‘Brown Sugar’ might be …” Personally, I kind of like using honorifics for people. This is a real paragraph – written by Joseph Epstein – that was published in the Wall Street Journal /wFBmfzfidQ
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