# I'm a Fellow! No really, now it's official! **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [May 12, 2006, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470 "2006-05-12T02:39:52Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 2
### Author: ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/21 "2006-05-12T10:52:17Z")
Don’t forget to tell all your patients. I’m certain that they will be appropriate impressed to hear that their doctor is now a fellow. Maybe they’ll bake you a cake… ---
### Author: ![MizGrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@MizGrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizGrand) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/22 "2006-05-12T11:29:59Z")
Yay **Qad**! It does give a certain _extra_ feeling of achievement when you’ve battled the bottle and won. All those things you figured at one time in your life were un-achievable, and yet, here you are. Keep up the good works. ---
### Author: ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/23 "2006-05-12T11:50:28Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > I just got official word today that I’m now a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians! Is that because of all the years you have spent treating members of… The Family? 🆒 Congratulations **Qadgop**! ---
### Author: ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/24 "2006-05-12T12:16:01Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Congratulations! > You are the family doctor for the disfunctional family circus. 😃 And what about his practice outside of the SDMB? Congrats to **Dr. QtM** ---
### Author: ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/25 "2006-05-12T12:49:59Z")
Good Tidings indeed on your becoming an _Atan númenya ettele istima nosse elessan._ Jim {Q: Very rough translation}man/atan ; western/númenya; lands(outer)/ettele; learned/ngóla,istima; family/nosse; heal/elessa ---
### Author: ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/26 "2006-05-12T13:10:08Z")
That’s just excellent! Couldn’t have happened to a nicer fellow. 😃 Congratulations! ---
### Author: ![Crescend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Crescend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescend) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/27 "2006-05-12T13:49:18Z")
Congratulations, **Qadgop**! ---
### Author: ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/28 "2006-05-12T14:13:46Z")
I cannot add much except: _Congratulations, Doc!_ Your patients are lucky to have you around (and so are we). ---
### Author: ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/29 "2006-05-12T14:15:26Z")
Like others, my first thought at reading the OP was _Since when is **Quadgop** a **family** physician?_ Congrats on joining the Fellowship! ---
### Author: ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/30 "2006-05-12T14:16:41Z")
Mucho congratulations, Doc Mercotan! I’m so happy for you!!! ---
### Author: ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/31 "2006-05-12T14:33:12Z")
Well, all hail and well met, fellow! Congrats–couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, er-fellow. 🆒 ---
### Author: ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/32 "2006-05-12T14:59:11Z")
My dad is a long time member of the AAFP. Just last week he was complaining about the total lack of shiv injury knowledge in the AAFP. Serindipity man, serindipity. ---
### Author: ![theunfounddoor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@theunfounddoor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theunfounddoor) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/33 "2006-05-12T15:38:31Z")
Let me add another Congrats 😃 You deserve it. 🙂 ---
### Author: ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/34 "2006-05-12T15:53:17Z")
> [@theunfounddoor](#): > > Let me add another Congrats 😃 You deserve it. 🙂 Heh. If I really got what I deserved, I’d be in prison… Oh, wait. I am. Never mind! And yes, I do treat the “Family” here in the pen. Not just in the Godfather sense, but we’ve had father/son teams here, along with siblings, cousins, and one husband/wife team that moved thru once. And I treat 'em as young as 16 which is technically pediatrics. The occasional pregnant patient at the women’s center, too. and Jim, “Man of the West from the outer lands has knowledge and a family sword”? ---
### Author: ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/35 "2006-05-12T16:11:42Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > …snip… > and Jim, “Man of the West from the outer lands has knowledge and a family sword”? Best I could do on the fly with an online [Quenya to English Dictionary](http://home.netcom.com/~heensle/lang/elvish/quenya/engquen.html). _Atan númenya ettele istima nosse elessan_ Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians man/atan for Fellow western/númenya & lands(outer)/ettele for American learned/ngóla,istima for Academy (very weak usage) family/nosse for Family heal/elessa added ‘n’ to be Healer for Doctor Jim ---
### Author: ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/36 "2006-05-12T16:14:51Z")
That’s pretty cool, **QtM**! Congrats! ---
### Author: ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/37 "2006-05-12T16:26:06Z")
Nice goin’! ---
### Author: ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/38 "2006-05-12T16:31:30Z")
So, did they give you this specail Ring to carry around that shows your a member of the fellowship? Congrats, no doubt! ---
### Author: ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/39 "2006-05-12T16:34:47Z")
Hey congrats! And I now know what the FAAP stands for after my doctor’s name! ---
### Author: ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan) #### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-fellow-no-really-now-its-official/356470/40 "2006-05-12T16:36:58Z")
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