I would disagree with your statement. I’m of the opinion that anyone who goes to a technical school and gets a degree in a SCIENCE, is entitled to the honorific “Doctor”
You are showing your ignorance.
Doctorates are given in a variety of disciplines, one of whom happens to be medicine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Medicine
and in the link right above you will see that in India, Britain, Ireland, and many Commonwealth nations, the medical degree is instead the MBBS i.e., Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery(MBChB, BM BCh, MB BCh, MBBS, BMBS, BMed, BM) so some medical doctors aren't Doctors!
I actually thought Jill Biden was an MD, she was there to keep him on his meds and kick start his brain.
Oh yeah?
I work with a slew of scientists with PhD’s in Engineering. I don’t even call MD’s “Doctor” anymore.
Really! I seriously thought she was an actual MD, the way the MSM is always puffing her up with the title Doctor Biden.
Then again, they're alyaws telling us what a foreign policy wonk her husband, Anvil Joe , is, and what beautiful arms Mooch has.
These people make me want to retch.
Your view of the distinction is a commonly held one but not correct. The word doctor comes from the Latin word docere, meaning to teach. The doctorate is an old degree, it dates back to the 12th century. A person with an MD, a professional degree, is a physician. It has only been recently that physicians even needed a college degree. Many of them were barbers and blood letters.
Ph.D. means “Doctor of Philosophy.” So, she is, in fact, a doctor (of philosophy) and can/deserves to be called “doctor”.