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you can now get a PhD in nursing and call yourself a Doctor

and its making MDs, DOs and even quite a few nurses very unhappy

You can also practice independently as a nurse practitioner and be called doctor with a DNP. I think one should keep in mind the setting. If you're in a hospital or clinic with MDs and DOs, then it's probably not a good idea for a nurse practitioner to call himself or herself doctor because it could lead to confusion among the patients. It's probably not a good idea in an independent practice either. At a college, it doesn't matter.

In a mental health setting, psychologists are normally called doctors. Someone with a PhD in Counseling may cause confusion if her or she were to go by doctor because counselors cannot practice on the same level as psychologists.