ok ok I have to flip the coin here. BTW thanks Dr. Fuji for the props to the nurses I am a nurse and while I was working in a pre-op clinic I would enter the room "Hi are you Mr. Smith?" the cold snotty response would sometimes be "I'm DR Smith." OOOOkaaay hi Dr. SOB I mean Smith. (Only later to find out most of these doctors were Phd's or vets.) I worked with about 25 doctors and always called them by their first name. Maybe it was because they were anesthesiologist and they gave up a long time trying to convince people that they were real doctors.
Also, there is a serious gender problem in medicine. Along side doctors we would have about four residents working, and on the days when it was an all female staff the patients would always ask "But when am I gonna see a doctor" ... Hello! You just saw one!