Doctor and Boy Fishing

A doctor and a boy were fishing. The boy was the doctor’s son, but the doctor was not the boy’s father. Who was the doctor?




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I shift above you if you remove the first letter.
I come all around you if you remove the second as well.

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Second: One day he says, "I lie on Monday and Tuesday".
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