"Doctor" is a title which is conferred. MDs stole it trying to make it only about medicine in a campaign in the late 1800's as a way of bolstering their own credibility. The term "doctor" comes from the Italian "dottore" meaning one who can profess doctrine.
If I am in a professional setting such as giving a paper like I did last month, I refer to myself as Doctor. So do all of my colleagues. MDs are the only people as a whole that I have ever seen to take their title into personal life.
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