Pharm.D....doctor?

Can someone with a pharm.D degree be referred to as doctor? A pharm.D degree is a doctorate degree, so shouldn't they be referred to as doctor?
Answer:
of course a pharmD's title is Dr. It's the same as when you called your professors in university "Dr So and so" when they were PhDs and not MDs.

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My best friends wife is a Pharmacist with the degree from UK, she's referred to as Dr.

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Yes. PharmD's should be referred to as a doctors.

I am studying to attain my pharmD. I'm entering professional school in the fall (having completed two pre-professional years).

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No, they are NOT doctors. They just fill prescriptions not write them. They went to college to learn how to fill prescriptions. That is it !

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Actually, I'm going out for my PharmD. It is a doctorate degree, and is more work and more years than a Bachelor's. So technically a PharmD graduate is a doctor, but also to work in pharmacy now, you can't just have a Bachelor's, you need a PharmD to be a registered Pharmacist.

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Of course, a Pharm D is a doctorate degree in pharmacy. In the United States, and many other countries, the term "doctor" has become synonymous with the term "physician" (even when the physician degree is not a doctorate level). So its use as a title in certain settings (e.g. in a hospital with physicians present)... it may be confusing to call a pharmacist "doctor." This does not affect PhDs as much since they are usually not in settings in which they could be mistaken with physicians

Therefore, while it can be appropriate in to address a Pharm D as "doctor so and so," in certain settings it can be confusing. However when someone says that he or she "is a doctor," this is understood as he or she "is a physician."

See Sharon's answer to understand why some people get confused. Either that or she has a chip on her shoulder about something.

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yes they have a doctorate ( PharmD) However they only have 2 years of grad school after four years of undergrad ( bachelors). with a 1-2 year internship ( in most states ) .
For that physcians (for the most) and i have heard some Ph.D's say that they refuse to refer to them as doctors, also it causes misconceptions (that they are physcians) and so you rarely hear them referred as doctor , but technically they are .

The only time you ever hear them being called doctor may be by someone who knows they have a doctorate level education , in a clinical education I.E. hospital , but not usually beacuse again , no one says physican they say doctor

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yes im a Doctor of Pharmacy student...Pharm-D's should called DR because we study same books as MBBS students...there is only a difference that we cant do surgery but it doesnt means that we should not be called DRS...a Pharm-D is 100% a DR

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Absolutely! They are doctors in medicine. More and more doctors are becoming open to the fact that someone who has attained their Pharm D. is a doctor. You'll start hearing it even more often!

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