>>Terry,
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>>If physicians (in the English sense- i.e. medical discipline specialists as opposed to surgical) are referring to themselves as "Mr" then it sounds to me like the latest example of "surgeon envy".
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>John
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>You seem to know a lot about the medical profession, and in other countries. Were/are you in the field yourself?
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>>However, the sort of people who are gossiping about their doctor are more likely to be talking about facelifts and/or augmentation/reduction of various prominent bits than their raised blood sugar.
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>Not the type you hear chin-wagging on buses. And if they had been, judging by the ones I've seen/heard, well their procedures hadn't worked! :-)
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>I used to be a trainee radiographer, and I coulda sworn the radiologists were "misters". I may be wrong.

The "mister" thing isn't used here.
But I have heard, many times, that Radiologists are the highest paid of all medical staffers here in Canada.

I guess it's similar in the U.S. as they've started a trend there to transmit images to India for reading by experts there, at a small fraction of the cost. Personally I would be most upset if I got wind mine had been read by that method!