Crap you got me, and I'm usually so anal at double checking my posts.
I apologize ahead of time for this post. I'm going to get flack for this I'm sure, I guess I just feel like playing devils advocate today...
I'll agree these kind of things have their place, but not in a new thread. I think, and i don't think im alone, that this shows a lack of confidence. It gives that "Hey im so shocked that I actually found a DO doing ______, I can't believe it, my life isn't a waste!!" feel that makes me want to puke. If it were like a DO in space or something, that's cool. Now a DO general surgeon who did a fellowship in cosmetic surgery. I mean he's not even a plastic surgeon. there literally has got to be hundreds of DO's just like this.
I'll give up some ground here and admit that yes this is the pre-osteo forum and maybe it is news to some people about what a DO is, does, and how far they can go. However one anecdotal post isn't going to give anyone much faith, who's to say they arnt thinking maybe this one guy got lucky.
Those "a-ha" moments i usually get are when I look at hospitals and i see a history of many DO's that get into the fields & residencies that I want to go to. Although I'll admit that there has to be one DO that starts it all, I just don't get that warm fuzzy feeling until i see several of them, not just one.
Which brings me to my point numero dos: I get that warm fuzzy feeling all the time. If you want I'll find as many DO's in competitive fields as I can and give each one a brand spankin' new thread for themselves...I bet I can take up at least 10 pages doing that, you call that productive use of web board space?