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[clever delta]

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[rapid anchor]

docteur is when you are a doctor, whatever phd you did.

Médecin is being doctor in medicine.

But we often say docteur to say médecin

"je vais chez le docteur" (=médecin)

[barren vector]

docteur is the term used when addressing a doctor
médecin is the name of the profession
but like Kilou said, you can hear docteur used in the latter case as well

[rapid anchor]

in the daily conversations : docteur = médecin

As i work i science, I mostly hear docteur when it's someone with a phd

depends on the context

[hearty leaf]

Basically doctor vs physician

Though I'd say médecin is more common than English physician