Talk:Doctor

Proposed merger

Doctorates are separate from just medicine and being a physician. After all, I recall that the First Doctor initially denied being a doctor of medicine when he or others were feeling ill.

Plus, the bit about the word meaning "great warrior" in A Good Man doesn't really fit anywhere on a medicine page. -- Tybort (talk page) 10:06, February 17, 2013 (UTC)

Good point, but won't a lot of the information overlap if we start to actually add information to the two pages? Also, colloquially, a doctor is someone who works in the line of medicine. Yes, you can have a doctorate in many things, including cheese-making, apparently, but "doctor," and well as "nurse," generally refers to someone in the line of medicine. I agree that maybe they shouldn't be merged, but what should we do, then, about the over-lap of info?– The preceding unsigned comment was added by SmallerOnTheOutside (talk • contribs) .

We're not just dealing with colloquialisms here though.

We deal with the overlap of info by dealing with it. Cover the medical specifics of doctor-physician on the medicine page. Here on this page we'll deal with the term as a title.

I don't think we'll have a lot of overlap, or if we do it will be phrased in a way to be suitably different. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:42, February 18, 2013 (UTC)

Origin of the word

Especially considering the behind the scenes section, wasn't the insinuation in A Good Man Goes to War's text that both the "wise man" and "great warrior" definitions of the word both originated from the Time Lord, the Doctor, in a timey-wimey fasion? -- Tybort (talk page) 10:08, February 17, 2013 (UTC)