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report her to the Mass State Medical Board for impersonating a physician
She might actually be an MD.
She could be non-practicing... she might be one of those "doctors" who just went to med school and never did a residency (went into research, wrote books, etc). Actual practicing physicians might frown on the latter person referring to themselves as "doctor," but it may be legal, provided she's not attempting to practice.
Remember those lipitor commercials with Dr. Jarvik (artificial heart inventor).
I know alot of practicing MD's and pharmacist were pissed considering he wasn't licensed to practice medicine but the commercials made him out to be a premier cardiologist.
It's a little "stolen valor"-ish to pretend to be a physician when you're not... and pretension is universally bad.
You go through a real meat-grinder of a process to actually become a physician, and you sacrifice a lot of your youth, wealth, free time, and family time... so that title means something to most docs. That said, I
NEVER tell people I meet out in public that I'm a physician... and you'd never guess it by the way I talk, what I drive, or the way I dress.
You can get really wrapped around the axle with titles, but I find it best not to advertise.
The non-practicing Mrs. Leavitt was apparently attempting to argue from authority with her title... which isn't necessarily a logical fallacy if the underlying argument is sound, and isn't necessarily out-of-bounds if used to add weight to a point,
IF the speaker is
actually an authority. It becomes a completely illegitimate form of argument if one is NOT. When one considers that she hasn't practiced at all in at least 20 years or so, her decades-old-and-unused medical degree is completely irrelevant.