Any Regrets?

[DesiQ]

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Hi.. I'm sorry if this has been posted before but I just wanted to know if anyone who is a DO right now regrets taking the osteopathic route and had wished they had taken the MD route instead, for whatever reason. Please share any expriences if this applies to anyone.

 

[OnMyWayThere]

Hi.. I'm sorry if this has been posted before but I just wanted to know if anyone who is a DO right now regrets taking the osteopathic route and had wished they had taken the MD route instead, for whatever reason. Please share any expriences if this applies to anyone.

It would be odd for anybody on SDN to outright say they regret it. However a couple of DOs I shadowed recommended to try MD first... they just felt unequal to their MD counterparts, for example... MD's had MD on their coats while this one guy in the ED just had his name (so he avoids patients in the emergency room asking "where is the MD?). Just several stuff.

Nevertheless, my mentor is a DO and he loves it and I'm pre-DO all the way. I think it's best for you to shadow a DO and see if you're ready for the "prejudice" that comes with it. You need to have a lot of pride in this route you might take, which is what I will have if I get in.

 

[pathdawg]

Honestly, no. I do not have any regrets about "going D.O." I think that the concerns about "being unequal" to M.D.'s is imagined. I have done an allopathic residency and fellowship and can honestly say that there is no difference. My advice is, whether you go to an M.D. or a D.O. school, do the best you can and be the best doctor that you can be. You will ultimately be judged on your abilities, not the initials on your coat.

This is the bottom line: There are many factors that go into what kind of doctor that you will become (personality, emapthy, brains, compassion, work ethic, etc.) I don't believe that where you go to school has alot to do with it.

You will find in the course of your career that those who bash others (for being D.O., IMG, whatever) are masking (poorly) some massive insecurities. I try to concentrate on being the best doc I can be. I really don't have time for other people's lame prejudices.

Good luck.

 

[DesiQ]

Thanks for your responses everyone. The reason I asked is because one of the DOs I shadowed was telling me about some negative encounters with other doctors at the local hospital. He opened his own clinic and stopped working at the hospital because many MDs made him feel inferior just cuz he is a DO. I know it shouldn't matter whether you go MD or DO, I just wanted to see what I'd have to deal with once I finally start my own practice (which probably won't even be until another 10 years :-/... heheh hopefully by then DOs and MDs would just treat each other as equals, not as one being better than the other)

Thanks again🙂

 

[sl12]

I shadowed both MD's and DO's before applying, and to be honest I never once saw anybody (patients, nurses, other doc's) treat either one of them any different than any other pyhsician. I can't say much more than that because I haven't even started school yet, but I would be happy to be in the shoes of any of the physicians that I shadowed.