People who have earned their doctorate are entitled to use the honorific "Doctor."
People who have earned their doctorate are entitled to use the honorific "Doctor."
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=== Doctoral fraud ===
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The confusion amongst the public between academic and medical doctors often leads to the practise of Doctoral [[fraud]], where the holder of an academic Ph.D., especially one that has been purchased from a non-accredited college) deliberately misrepresents themself as an M.D. in order to enhance their expert standing or the supposed legitimacy of a pseudo-medical commercial enterprise.