Every other doctorate but medicine is useless? - Edit 1
Before modification by Isaac at 06/02/2013 10:21:39 PM
And I've never, ever seen a lawyer referred to as "Dr.". Sometimes the more pretentious ones like to put Esq. after their name, but it just looks sad in my opinion. The only formality that really properly applies to lawyers is that, in the courtroom setting, the proper address is "counselor".
I've never heard a lawyer called doctor either and I think it was pretty obvious that it was a sidenote to remind what the D in JD stands for and not a rarity in elected officials.
But I think you're using an absurdly wide brush with "Useless Ph.D." since it includes all the very useful sciences and I want to remind you that doctor meant 'to confer a degree on' before we used it to refer to medicine, which we've been doing for a scant 300 years, and the older forms all root out of teaching and scholarship, not medicine.