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a JD/MD is closer to a PhD than a masters, tho, so your poll is a little skewed, methinks.



That's a recent US invention. The degrees used in the US were inherited from the British (specifically Oxford/Cambridge) system, along with caps, gowns and hoods. In Britain, professional degrees (physician, lawyer) are not considered worthy of the title "doctor"**.

So a UK physician will generally have 2 bachelor's degrees, MB/B.Chir (Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery) to acknowledge the extended length of time spent in school. A British MD degree is a higher (research) degree usually found only among teaching faculty in medical schools.

US medical schools devalued their MD degree to be just professional training sometime around 1890. A US physician who has a research degree usually gets a PhD as well as an MD now, to differentiate from a regular quack.

**Origin: "Doctor" is the Latin word for teacher.
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