That's silly.
I remember my first day of medical school, our Dean got up on the stage and told us, "After four years spent proving yourself to be a well-rounded person, doing volunteer and community service activities, holding leadership positions, and excelling in a range of courses, I am here to tell you that those days are over. From here on out, you are expected to see only disease, and never people."
And she was right! Each block we studied a discrete organ system and never looked at how it interacted with other systems. Most importantly, we were absolutely prohibited from examining how patients' social situation, psychological makeup, and family environment interacted with their health.
I remember I once made the mistake of asking about strategies to improve medication compliance in patients with mental health issues. I had to meet with a board comprised on our Dean of students, an academic counselor, and several high-ranking faculty. They made it clear that my behavior was completely inappropriate, and did not uphold the standards of MD education, who have certainly never acted as trusted family advisors, following their patients over long periods of time and attending not only to physical health needs but also less obvious psychosocial problems. Whereas DOs have been rural family physicians, often taking barter as a form of payment in less-affluent areas, MDs have been strictly limited to sub-sub-specialty practices in for-profit facilities. After hearing all that, you better believe I never made that mistake again!
The rest of medical school involved mainly scientific courses. I have heard that DO schools learn these things called, "family history" and "social history," but honestly I'm not entirely sure what that entails.
There is a reason that every US Surgeon General since the beginning of our country has been a DO. And the DOs led the charge against smoking as a public health menace. And DOs provided the bulk of the medical support for the ACA, creation of Medicare/Medicaid, and CHIP programs in multiple states. There are certainly no rural-track MD programs, and nearly every FP residency in the United States is a DO-only program. MDs are "disease-focused" and proud of it. Even today, I will often review xrays, and then perform my physical exam wearing a blindfold and earplugs, lest I inadvertently find something out about the patient that could alter my pre-determined treatment plan.
In summary: DOs and MDs are the same in every way. Except DOs are all nicer people who care about patients, whereas MDs are impatient, don't give a crap about actual people, lack basic human emotion, and sometimes sacrifice orphan babies to the dark lord C'thulu. But other than that, they're exactly the same.
