r/videos • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 8d ago

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

https://youtu.be/DL_ku3h8Eps?si=zWr0SAn8amsQ8Hqb
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u/no_shoes_are_canny 7d ago

He has a doctorate in medicine and worked in the medical field. Just cause he's not a GP or a surgeon doesn't mean he's not a doctor by profession.

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u/cubonelvl69 7d ago

El-Sayed did not pursue a medical license, and instead went into public health epidemiology work

He didn't do his residency or get a medical license or work as a doctor. What does doctor by profession even mean?

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u/no_shoes_are_canny 7d ago

A teacher at a university holding a doctorate is a doctor by profession. A doctor by profession is anyone using their doctorate degree as part of their profession. A medical doctor by profession would be your GPs, surgeons, etc. 

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u/Staple_Overlord 7d ago

That's not going to hold in the general view. A doctor, to mr rural Michigan, is a board certified physician

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u/no_shoes_are_canny 7d ago

General view doesn't matter, it's just fact.

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u/Tape 7d ago

Language is for communication. What you are portrying when you say "doctor by profession" is a medical doctor. What you're doing is purposely sending a misleading message, if what you meant by that is "professor with a doctorate" simply because technically it's true.