Medical practitioner?Edit

This is a tough one. Louis Pasteur was NOT a medical practitioner - see Wikipedia for instance - but he was referred to as a doctor in Star Trek. In fact, Pasteur was a chemist and was also one of the founders of modern microbiology. How should this be handled? --70.72.18.246 05:33, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

It should be handled by whatever is stated in canon, not real life. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 05:37, 14 April 2007 (UTC)