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DO reference in The Sopranos
Started by DD214_DOC
JKDMed said:
Was that on tonight?
Nope, was playing through the DVDs again.
We saw that clip at school like the first week of orientation. He was actually referring to UMDNJ-SOM in the show which was kind of funny. I think it was more like "I couldn't even get into that osteopathic school in south jersey." Hopefully we're the only ones who actually picked up on this and it doesn't perpetuate some silly public opinion of our profession.
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DOctorJay said:
Perhaps this is a response to the "crackerjack" AOA movement to get more DO's on TV campaign? laugh:
JKDMed said:
Damn his grades must have really been bad! That is good stuff though.
JMC_MarineCorps said:
R. Lee is the man. I really miss cable, if only because of Mail Call.
I'm tired of shows like these and pre-med idiots that keeps mentioning osteopathic medical schools in the same breath with low GPAs. D.O. schools are extremely hard and challenging. Last semester (MSI), we took 30.5 units consisting of gross anatomy, OMM, histology, embryology, biochemistry, pharmacology, immunology, pathology, and microbiology. This semester, we're taking 41 units. A person with a 4.0 would struggle in this environment.
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Chronotropic
TV pokes fun at everything. On sitcoms they make fun of every Ivy League school that isn't Harvard, state schools are often targets, etc etc. No biggy.
I don't think it would be anything but positive for the AOA to pay and have an osteopathic physician as a regular on the show ER for public awareness that 2 kinds of licensed physcians do exist. I agree that just placing them here and there is not an effective method, but something like the above constantly on would indeed expose the profession to a large population. And I think we all agree that the public needs to be educated on the profession. Even many premeds at my undergrad didn't know about it.
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OnMyWayThere said:
The only problem with that is the show would have to make a big deal about the doc being a DO every episode or people would never know.
A show about students going through an osteo school might work though.
Yes, the GI doc, but I think the avg person did not even notice she wasn't an MD. As far as ER is concerned I wonder why they never put a DO on the show. Probably b/c they could give two sh*ts, the only people that do are osteopaths. It probably does not bother Jon Fong either but mostly b/c he is making bank and pulling ER shifts.
coolness said:
DO schools have lower standards. Get over it.
They won't put a DO on ER because most viewers won't know what the hell they are. Do you really want viewers to say, "Hey, I wonder what a DO is?" then run across the plethora of propganda extolling the miracles of OMM? Not to mention, an advertising campaign for a field that is supposed to be professional will leave a bad taste in the mouths of the "common folk", portraying the profession as some kind of gimmicky alternative to traditional medicine.
I think it's better that DOs have a patient base that recognizes their contributions to the field and appreciates their talents and skills rather than millions of people with a superficial knowledge of what the field is. It's probably best that the profession remains in relative obscurity, especially since it will always be compared to the status quo of allopathic medicine;
there's really no way in hell any advertising campaign can raise AT Still to the level of Hippocrates or Gaelin in the minds of practically everyone.
small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
