[Leica] PhD qualifications

["Doug McLernon" <Douglas.McLernon@tcd.ie>]

When I was completing my doctorate many years ago, one of my supervisors
brought me down to earth with the comment, " Because of the requirement of
originality, most PhDs are experts in a subject so important that nobody
else has bothered to research it".

I agree with  Jonathan Lee about the social use of the "Doctor"  title
(unless in Germany where a person with two doctorates is addressed as "Herr
doctor doctor" and his wife as "Frau doctor, doctor").  Most of the people I
have observed who use it socially were either  awarded an H.C. degree for a
large contribution to the awarding institution or answered an advertisement
in the back of The Economist or Time Magazine for "degrees based upon
lifetime experience", and money, of course. (Education - sometimes physical
education - and Sociology excepted)
Regards,
Doug McLernon
Dublin, Ireland