I just remembered that I'm about to start seeing a Dr who uses her first name after "Dr."

She's really young and just a few years out of school. I was bothered by all of this at first, until we emailed back and forth a couple times and talked briefly, and I liked her responses a lot. No ego. A lot of common sense and grounding, combined with flexibility. Suddenly the age and the Dr Firstname was not an issue at all. I think she might have started using it because of her work with kids and youth, but that's just a guess. It doesn't feel as cornball as I first thought.