RE: Arly"s question about how to address doctors. In my book, this depends on one's relationship with him/her/them. For some MDs I know well, we are on a first name basis. For others, I use their title for them and they use mine for me. When someone I do not know calls me by my first name, I reply the same way and this usually stops them for continuing to assume they know me that well unless I indicate this is ok. (I have a personal bugaboo about seeing an MD as a patient and being addressed by first name when I have not suggested this first.) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% "We are all faced with a series of great %% %% opportunities brilliantly disguised as %% %% impossible situations" - definition of a %% %% lactation consulting service. %% %% Kathleen G. Auerbach, PhD, IBCLC %% %% [log in to unmask] Homewood, Illinois USA %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%