# It's official- I'm a doctor!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 28, 2006, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564 "2006-04-28T08:18:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/1 "2006-04-28T08:18:00Z")
After 6 years, and some hard work (I wouldn’t say _lots_ of hard work, but there was definitely some) I’ve passed my final exams and am no longer a medical student.
I am, in fact, Dr Irishgirl BA. MB. BAO BCh.
Sorry for blowing my own horn, but I want to tell everyone!
My medical school confers a Bachelor’s degree in Art, Medicine, Chirurgery (hey, it’s an old medical school) and a Bachelor’s in the Art of Obstetrics, just in case you’re confused by the alphabet soup.
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### Author:  [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/2 "2006-04-28T08:48:59Z")
Doctor huh? _pulls up shirt_ Can you tell me what this rash is?
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/3 "2006-04-28T09:24:28Z")
Congratulations. Why does my head hurt?
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/4 "2006-04-28T09:30:39Z")
**Toot! Toot! Toot!**
(I’ll do it for you, **Irishgirl**! My pleasure!
Hear, Ye! Hear Ye!
There is a new physician in our midst!
**Irishgirl** , to celebrate your diligence and your dedication, your storehouse of knowledge and your healing gifts, we raise our glasses, our coffee cups and our snack bags.
We know you’ll buy rounds for the first 1,000 Dopers to make it to your local pub within the next 12 hours. Is that correct? But we have to guess which pub that might be?
May all those little babies you bring into the world find their way to the SDMB and pay the $400 membership dues and treat all pre-2007 Members with reverence and all Mods with amused indulgence.
Here’s to you, Dr. Irishgirl! Salute!
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### Author:  [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/5 "2006-04-28T09:39:17Z")
Congratulations on your graduation! We salute thee! Skål!
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/6 "2006-04-28T09:44:59Z")
Well done, Doctor.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/7 "2006-04-28T09:46:25Z")
What the hell is Chirurgery? It sorta sounds like the noise you make as you ‘hug the porcelain’ if you ask me.
😃
Oh, many congratulations too. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/8 "2006-04-28T09:49:01Z")
Congratulations!
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### Author:  [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/9 "2006-04-28T09:50:07Z")
Congratulations!!! How nice to have another doctor (now officially) in our midst…
GT
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### Author:  [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/10 "2006-04-28T09:58:23Z")
Yay Irishgirl!!! Welcome to the club! I’ll open one for you!
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/11 "2006-04-28T10:24:20Z")
Congratulations!
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### Author:  [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/12 "2006-04-28T11:18:16Z")
Ehhhh, what’s up, doc?
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/13 "2006-04-28T11:47:45Z")
Congratulations! Enjoy your victory. Wishing you luck and joy in your new career. 🙂
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/14 "2006-04-28T11:52:37Z")
Hey doc… it hurts when I do _this_… 🙂
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### Author:  [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/15 "2006-04-28T12:18:39Z")
YEAAAA!!!
Congrats of the first order!!!
:: ;j Soo, you’re a Doktor? And such a nice Irish girl too! ;j ::
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### Author:  [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/16 "2006-04-28T12:29:51Z")
Good for you! Congrats! Yeah!
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/17 "2006-04-28T12:32:39Z")
Congratulations, Irishgirl!!
Doctor on down, girl!!
(I really have no idea what that means, but it sounds good and festive.)
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/18 "2006-04-28T12:46:31Z")
Huzzah!!
Now get back to work! People are depending on you! 😉
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/19 "2006-04-28T12:53:21Z")
Doctor, doctor, give me the news !
We got a bad case of PROUD of you!
Wow, you should indeed be proud, shout it from the rooftops, all day and into the wee small hours, tell everyone you see today, shake their hands and accept the warm glow of their admiration. You’ve certainly earned it.
It must be time to start work on your golf game and superior attitude, enjoy!
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### Author:  [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-im-a-doctor/354564/20 "2006-04-28T12:59:03Z")
Most _excellent_ news, **irishgirl**! Ya did damned good.
Just don’t forget the most valuable lesson of all: warm up your stethoscope in your hand before placing it on someone’s personal regions.
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