validating "per use" licensing

[Richmond]

On 07/14/2012 08:31 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 07/14/2012 06:35 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>
>> What is a barrister?
> It's a british half-a-lawyer, I think :)
>
>> I don't think we have those sort of beasts in Scotland,
>> although
>> we do have writers to the signet.
> Do they both give advice and appear in court?

Aye, they do, an as far as Ah jalouse they mun put a peruke on their heids.

>
> And if so, to which century do they dress?
>
> :)
>
>
>> Well and true.
>>
>> Notwithstanding that, my grandfather, Dr Richmond McIntosh (M.D.) was
>> bothe real medical doctor (i.e. not just an M. B.) and contributed to
>> knowldge (search for his stuff
>> in the BMJ on the internet).
> Prior to the modern MD, there was a real M.D., just like the Ph.D.,
> L.L.D., D.D. (the four learned professions)
>
> Watering down the title was a reasonable exchange for replacing the
> barbers for primary medical care . . .
>
> I'll acknowledge and agree that an M.D. who has either published in a
> journal or developed and circulated (not just patented and charged
> licensing fees) is a doctor.
>
> I have a couple of friends with joint M.D. Ph.D.   I refer to them as
> "the only physicians I know who are real doctors" . . .
>
> :)
>
>