DO salary

[JaggerPlate]

Holy cow I had no idea OMM specialists were paid that much

I don't think the cash based OMM guys in posh areas with lots of volume are the norm.

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[painmd87]

...The thing about SDN is that it seriously does offer some golden advice. I don't think I would have made it to medical school without some of the info from this site. However, for every med student/resident who leaves a post that's pure money, 50-100 young pre-meds make wild accusations, assumptions, say absurd things, or ask the same questions over and over again without using the search function.

This thread has de-railed so I'll cherry pick this comment and add my own:

I'd say about 7-10% of the stuff posted on here is worthwhile. Interview feedback is excellent, so are discussions on secondary applications (such as when 400 people have a question and 1 of them actually calls the admissions office and posts the answer). However, as with most of the Internet, at least 90% of the people on here are raging idiots.

That's the problem with a community of intelligent people (theoretically, those who wish to join this profession are more intelligent than the average guy on the street, right?). You get a bunch of people who have been told their whole lives how smart they are, put them together, feelings get hurt and courtesty goes out the window.

But yes, there is some excellent golden advice on SDN. And some fantastic meltdowns too.

 

[VeeTeeHokies]

I don't think the cash based OMM guys in posh areas with lots of volume are the norm.

Just did the DO search on the AOA website, and there are actually QUITE a few OMM practitioners in the Northern Virginia / DC area. I was actually pretty shocked about it. There's also a very event split between primary care and specialists as well: an otolaryngologist, lots of rads, a neurosurgeon, lots of orthos, a couple cardiologists, derms, etc...

Wish I would have checked this out long ago...

 

[JaggerPlate]

Just did the DO search on the AOA website, and there are actually QUITE a few OMM practitioners in the Northern Virginia / DC area. I was actually pretty shocked about it. There's also a very event split between primary care and specialists as well: an otolaryngologist, lots of rads, a neurosurgeon, lots of orthos, a couple cardiologists, derms, etc...

Wish I would have checked this out long ago...

Shhh ... don't tell pre-allos. It will ruin their reason for visiting SDN.

 

[willen101383]

Shhh ... don't tell pre-allos. It will ruin their reason for visiting SDN.

LOL. I think its funny how there is this "common" view that most DOs are primary care practitioners.....but when you look at the match lists for pretty much all (i havent seen every schools list) the more established schools its pretty even.

And I always interpret people as saying DO=primary care=family medicine

not DO=primary care specialty like obgyn.

Sure PCOM has a lot of people matching into internal medicine...but I am certain most of them will do fellowships..

 

[DoctorPenguin]

Fo sho!

I was ignorantly shocked to realize how many neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons there were in my area that were DO's. It's definitley a cool sight.

 

[Ted Whittersil]

I guess it not really all about the money.. Some people just have a medical inkling that they enroll medicine. It's not an easy job