Dear Editor:
Re: Get over issues with Shin, Letters to the editor, Burnaby NOW, June 5.
Barbara Ruebottom is missing the point(s). Yes, people with doctorates can refer to themselves as doctors, but in the real world, most choose not to unless they are practising medical doctors.
Combined with the account she and her team sent to newsrooms for public dissemination that suggests she was a practising MD who received a doctorate from UBC rather than some school in the Caribbean . Well, not all of us can so easily "get over" this.
Whether someone who was spewing xenophobic comments online as a 21-yearold adult at the end of her undergraduate years is "highly educated" is another matter.
Monica Wang, Burnaby
