Famous DOs

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Launcelot said:
Martin MacNeil, D.O., WU-COMP graduate, con-man, and convicted murderer anyone? To make matters worse, this happened in Utah, where I am told D.O.'s already have it tough.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/09/justice/martin-macneill-trial-verdict/
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Hannibal Lecter wasn't a DO too, was he?
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medickdb said:
That's awesome! He sounds like a cool guy. I hope my fiancee or I run into him one day. She's going to try to do CCATT next year.
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Yeah, he really is awesome in and out of work. He's just a talented normal guy. I find that most of the time these guys who accomplish a lot are social awkward and don't know what else to talk about except for work. I hope she gets to work with him, he's great to learn from and very approachable.
 
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Neil J. Halin, DO, FSIR- Chief of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology at TUFTS, "Top Docs" regional and national, Fellow of SIR, publications, etc... not bad for a heavily loaded MD Boston community and Ivy league schools in the area.
 
CaptainDO said:
Neil J. Halin, DO, FSIR- Chief of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology at TUFTS, "Top Docs" regional and national, Fellow of SIR, publications, etc... not bad for a heavily loaded MD Boston community and Ivy league schools in the area.
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Hilarious given that Tufts doesn't take DO residents.
 
That's interesting b/c Hopkins and Harvard affiliated medical centers take on DO's. The guy I mentioned on the first page did both fellowship and residency at both and he's a DO. Why would Ivy league be open to it, but others not so much.
 
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CaptainDO said:
That's interesting b/c Hopkins and Harvard affiliated medical centers take on DO's. The guy I mentioned on the first page did both fellowship and residency at both and he's a DO. Why would Ivy league be open to it, but others not so much.
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Fellowships tend to be more DO friendly even in programs that wouldn't take them for residency. Ex. NYU psych.
 
serenade said:
Fellowships tend to be more DO friendly even in programs that wouldn't take them for residency. Ex. NYU psych.
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Brigham and Womens anesthesia residency... that's a Harvard residency in a competitive field and critical care fellowship at Hopkins... which Hopkins is suprisingly DO friendly. I think they only care about hard working doctors.
 
CaptainDO said:
Brigham and Womens anesthesia residency... that's a Harvard residency in a competitive field and critical care fellowship at Hopkins... which Hopkins is suprisingly DO friendly. I think they only care about hard working doctors.
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I have seen this too, I remember when I was first picking my schools I was applying to and was digging through match lists, I was surprised by how many people got into Hopkin's residencies from DO school.
 
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TreadLightly said:
If they have a foreign MD that they weren't allowed to practice with, to the point where they were required to get a DO, why do they still carry an MD behind their name? Isn't that like saying, "hey check out this degree I have, not that I'm even allowed to use it in the US"?

Not that I think it matters at that point anyways, but it just seems stupid.
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They still carry the MD behind their name because they earned it. They spent years trying to achieve it, even if it was in a foreign med school. Plus, it really doesn't mean that they were horrible doctors that they couldn't practice with the MD...life happens, some go into research and become old grads, some just don't get those competitive scores on USMLEs, and some just don't match because they are FMGs. That DO is a way to get back in the game again, if they choose to. Does it suck to have to repeat med school twice? Absolutely. But they do what they got to do.

I would know, my husband is a future M.D, D.O. 🙂
 
Stills was a MD, DO... wonder what foreign medical school he went to... just kidding.
 
CaptainDO said:
Stills was a MD, DO... wonder what foreign medical school he went to... just kidding.
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Truth of the matter is that he did not go to medical school. He took a few classes sometime between his life and that's it. He got the MD through apprenticeship.
 
serenade said:
Truth of the matter is that he did not go to medical school. He took a few classes sometime between his life and that's it. He got the MD through apprenticeship.
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Interesting... I take it that was the standard of the day though?
 
serenade said:
More or less. Most doctors couldn't tell their ass from their head back then.
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whats funny is 100 years from now the docs will be saying the same thing about our current docs.

We are like: "wow, they used mercury and stuff to try and fight off disease, man they were dumb back then"
Future docs will be like: "man they used chemo and radiation to fight cancer? Thats ridiculous...."

We are only as good as the times we live in.
 
Awesome Sauceome said:
whats funny is 100 years from now the docs will be saying the same thing about our current docs.

We are like: "wow, they used mercury and stuff to try and fight off disease, man they were dumb back then"
Future docs will be like: "man they used chemo and radiation to fight cancer? Thats ridiculous...."

We are only as good as the times we live in.
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There's a difference here though. We attempted to understand and learn and the method by which will learned will continue to feed the future. The method by which they sought to understand disease and the world is not. They were throwing darts in the dark, were throwing darts at a board.


That is if NASA's prediction that the world will collapse within like 50 years doesn't come true.
 
serenade said:
There's a difference here though. We attempted to understand and learn and the method by which will learned will continue to feed the future. The method by which they sought to understand disease and the world is not. They were throwing darts in the dark, were throwing darts at a board.


That is if NASA's prediction that the world will collapse within like 50 years doesn't come true.
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Have to start somewhere.
I am unaware of these NASA claims.
 
serenade said:
There's a difference here though. We attempted to understand and learn and the method by which will learned will continue to feed the future. The method by which they sought to understand disease and the world is not. They were throwing darts in the dark, were throwing darts at a board.


That is if NASA's prediction that the world will collapse within like 50 years doesn't come true.
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seriously... its the exact same thing. They learned by trusting in the guidance of people who had gone before them. The students followed the teachings of physicians who had been treating disease for longer than they had been alive. There is no difference whatsoever from now, except that more scientific discovery has occurred. In fact it was the osteopaths that first diverged from this train of thought. The allopaths were using (what we would now call) crazy medications and treatments for various illnesses. They were using these treatments based upon their scientific methods and judgments. If you were in that time and you were to question their treatments, you would be called out just as hard as you would now. It may seem to us like what they were doing was throwing darts at a board, but they were working with the best that they had. Our present (their future) was built upon their ability to practice medicine in a way that you are calling stupid. I mean I am not trying to pick a fight and call semantics (because in the end this really does not matter), but I am just suggesting to take a step back and appreciate where we came from and how we still do not know like anything... (in comparison to what people will know in the future).
 
Also, if there are any EMS people interested, Bryan Bledsoe, D.O. FACEP is one of the premier contributors to the realm. He authored many of the textbooks used by paramedic programs across the country, and has had a huge impact on EMS as a whole. I also just learned that he is a co-chair of the CEB for USSOCOM. In addition to these, he is also a great speaker and author, and is extremely approachable and friendly!
 
medickdb said:
I thought this was kind of cool.

Here's a brief list of famous DOs:

Earl Haas, DO - inventor of the tampon (you’re welcome, ladies)

Reef Karim, DO - medical expert on movies and TV shows such as “The Bourne Identity,” “Alias” and “The Today Show”

John Fong, DO - medical consultant to the long-running TV series “ER”

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ronald Blanck, DO - surgeon general of the U.S. Army from 1996 to 2000

Forrest “Phog” Allen, DO - basketball coach for the Kansas Jayhawks for 39 years

Samuel Sheppard, DO - the basis for the TV series and movie “The Fugitive”

Joel Weisman, DO - one of the physicians who discovered AIDS

W. Kenneth Riland, DO - personal physician to former presidents and Nelson Rockefeller

William Anderson, DO - a civil rights leader who worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr

Will Kirby, DO - won the second season of TV’s “Big Brother” on CBS and is a frequent guest on “The Doctors”

Leonard Calabrese, DO - a pioneer in HIV research at the Cleveland Clinic

Enrico Fazzini, DO - a Parkinson’s disease expert whose famous patients have included Pope John Paul II, Michael J. Fox, Mohammed Ali and Janet Reno

Lt. Cmdr Richard Jadick, DO - Navy physician profiled by Newsweek magazine
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I'm reading Jadick's book On Call In Hell right now. Great read
 
graybrij said:
I'm reading Jadick's book On Call In Hell right now. Great read
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I just finished it a couple of months ago...definitely agree, it is a very good book! Very interesting in how a urologist can become a battlefield medicine pioneer!
 
medickdb said:
I thought this was kind of cool.

Here's a brief list of famous DOs:

Earl Haas, DO - inventor of the tampon (you’re welcome, ladies)

Reef Karim, DO - medical expert on movies and TV shows such as “The Bourne Identity,” “Alias” and “The Today Show”

John Fong, DO - medical consultant to the long-running TV series “ER”

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ronald Blanck, DO - surgeon general of the U.S. Army from 1996 to 2000

Forrest “Phog” Allen, DO - basketball coach for the Kansas Jayhawks for 39 years

Samuel Sheppard, DO - the basis for the TV series and movie “The Fugitive”

Joel Weisman, DO - one of the physicians who discovered AIDS

W. Kenneth Riland, DO - personal physician to former presidents and Nelson Rockefeller

William Anderson, DO - a civil rights leader who worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr

Will Kirby, DO - won the second season of TV’s “Big Brother” on CBS and is a frequent guest on “The Doctors”

Leonard Calabrese, DO - a pioneer in HIV research at the Cleveland Clinic

Enrico Fazzini, DO - a Parkinson’s disease expert whose famous patients have included Pope John Paul II, Michael J. Fox, Mohammed Ali and Janet Reno

Lt. Cmdr Richard Jadick, DO - Navy physician profiled by Newsweek magazine
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So I loved the post and found some of my own famous Osteopathic Physicians. Made me proud.
Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Osteopathic_physicians
I hope you like it.
 
Not necessarily medically related, but Dr. Danny Conte DO is a physician practicing in New Jersey who has also had a few minor acting gigs.

He has appeared in Goodfellas, Casino, and most prominently in the Sopranos TV Series (in which he played the role of Doc Santoro, the NY mob boss who was shot in the eye outside a restaurant.) I always wondered whether or not this had anything to do with the Sopranos "mentioning" osteopathic medicine at two different points within the series' run. I would guess he has some connections with either Martin Scorsese or someone else involved in the Mob-themed film genre.
 
The only doctor I've heard of with both medical degrees is Michael Williams, DO, MD, MBA who is the President of UNTHSC. He's an anesthesiologist and 1981 graduate of UNT. He got a MBA from Duke (Top 15 B-school) and he also has a masters in health care management from Harvard. He got his MD from Ross.

I get the MBA and masters, he seems to be really into health management but why would he want to spend any time or money with getting an MD, from Ross no less. Maybe he just paid them for the degree after most, if not all his credits from medical school at UNT transferred over.

Idk maybe he likes having a lot of degrees but emphasizing in his bio that he has 2 medical degrees seems like did it to show off. Ehhh what do I know,
I'm just a premed. Just giving my 0.02

http://web.unthsc.edu/info/200285/office_of_the_president/235/meet_dr_williams
 
Williams has said that he basically purchased that MD diploma when he was already a surgery resident at Dallas Methodist. At the time (early 1980s), there were hospitals that refused to grant privileges to DOs and he didn't know where he might end up, so he thought it might be a good idea just in case (the way he explained it: "Okay, so you want an MD diploma? Here's my MD diploma.")
 
medickdb said:
I thought this was kind of cool.

Here's a brief list of famous DOs:

Earl Haas, DO - inventor of the tampon (you’re welcome, ladies)

Reef Karim, DO - medical expert on movies and TV shows such as “The Bourne Identity,” “Alias” and “The Today Show”

John Fong, DO - medical consultant to the long-running TV series “ER”

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ronald Blanck, DO - surgeon general of the U.S. Army from 1996 to 2000

Forrest “Phog” Allen, DO - basketball coach for the Kansas Jayhawks for 39 years

Samuel Sheppard, DO - the basis for the TV series and movie “The Fugitive”

Joel Weisman, DO - one of the physicians who discovered AIDS

W. Kenneth Riland, DO - personal physician to former presidents and Nelson Rockefeller

William Anderson, DO - a civil rights leader who worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr

Will Kirby, DO - won the second season of TV’s “Big Brother” on CBS and is a frequent guest on “The Doctors”

Leonard Calabrese, DO - a pioneer in HIV research at the Cleveland Clinic

Enrico Fazzini, DO - a Parkinson’s disease expert whose famous patients have included Pope John Paul II, Michael J. Fox, Mohammed Ali and Janet Reno

Lt. Cmdr Richard Jadick, DO - Navy physician profiled by Newsweek magazine
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You forgot the most famous one of them all, AT Still.
 
  • Craig Phelps, DO, (ATSU): Previous provost and current president of A.T. Still University, and primary care team physician of the NBA Phoenix Suns.
  • Ivan Raimi, DO (DMU): An American screenwriter. Wrote Spider Man 3, Army of Darkness, and Drag Me To Hell.
  • Earle Haas, DO (KCU): Inventor of the tampon with an applicator, marketed as Tampax.
  • Reef Karim, DO (KCU): Writer, host, television personality, and medical advisor for several movies and television shows, including: "The Bourne Identity," "Lords of Dogtown," "Alias," "Private Practice," and "Pasadena." He is also a medical expert for "The Today Show," "Larry King Live," CNN and NBC, and appeared on "Oprah."
  • Huy T.T. Nguyen, DO (KCU): Founder and chief executive officer of Cogon Systems, and first surgeon to perform a single incision laparoscopic gall bladder removal (cholecystectomy).
  • Joel Weisman, DO (KCU): One of the first to identify AIDS.
  • Ret. Col. Daniel K. Berry, DO/PhD (KCU): his team developed the Remote Casualty Location and Assessment Device (RCLAD), which was used in attempts to locate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He also invented the Patient Support Pallet (PSP), which is used to transport wounded soldiers, including Pvt. Jessica Lynch, who was held captive in 2003 as a prisoner of war in Iraq.
  • Reuben Henderson, DO (MSUCOM): former professional American football player who played cornerback for four seasons for the Chicago Bears and the San Diego Chargers.
  • John H Finley, DO (CCOM): Team physician for the Detroit Red Wings from 1957-2003, and author of "Hockeytown Doc."
  • Paul S. Saenz, DO (UNT): Team physician for the San Antonio Spurs.
  • Richard Jadick, DO (NYIT): U.S. Navy physician who saved the lives of 30 marines and sailors during the Second Battle of Fallujah, earning the Bronze Star.
  • Ronald R. Blanck, DO (PCOM): The first and only osteopathic physician ever appointed Surgeon General of the US Army.
  • Ted Eisenberg, DO (PCOM): The Guinness World Record holder for most breast augmentation surgeries performed.
  • Harold Marion Osborn, DO (PCOM): A U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist in track.
  • Mitchel Storey, DO (PCOM): Team physician for The Seattle Mariners since 1985.
  • Tyler Cymet, DO (NSU): Professor of Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, described a new genetic syndrome called Erondu–Cymet syndrome.
  • Will Kirby, DO (NSU): Clinical and Cosmetic Dermatologist; leading authority on laser tattoo removal; winner of CBS's Big Brother; has appeared on The Young and the Restless; and star of Dr. 90210.
  • Jon W. Fong, DO (WesternU): Medical advisor to the former hit television show ER.
  • Cynthia Stotts, DO (WesternU): The first female and the first DO physician in the 158-year history of LA County/USC Medical Center to be elected Chief of Medical Staff.
  • James Lally, DO (WesternU): The President and Chief Medical Officer of Chino Valley Medical Center. Also the team physician for the US Olympic Shooting Team.
  • Lee Burnett, DO (WesternU): A U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, is also the founder and executive director of Student Doctor Network. (MY FAVORITE)

There are a ton more notable DOs and feel free to list any that you found! I used Wikipedia pages for each school as a source.

Found this creepy fact while researching: From LECOM wiki page:
"In September 2008, 30 year old LECOM DO student, Jeremy Noyes, was arrested for planning to start a sex slave colony and training a four year old girl to be a sex slave after fellow LECOM DO student and girlfriend, Elizabeth Fleming, reported him to the FBI. Noyes met Fleming on a bondage website, www.collarme.com. On June 23, 2011 Noyes was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for child porn related felonies."
 
Also, there were like 20 or so DO politicians (in both the Senate and the House) so I left those out to keep it from getting too convoluted.
 
This is a really cool list actually! I knew Dr. Blanck but not most of these.

With the exception of Jeremy Noyes... who I promise is not representative of LECOM. (Also can this please not turn into a LECOM bashing thread? Not that I'm the staunchest defender of my school, but this guy was out of the ordinary by any way you can possibly look at it, and we have a LECOM thread once a month anyway, so it'd be cool to keep this one about the good DOs in the world.)
 
Bronze star!? It would have been gold or diamond if that was an MD! A clear example of DO discrimination.

Also, Spider man 3 was the worst of the trilogy. This really holds the profession back!


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ortnakas said:
This is a really cool list actually! I knew Dr. Blanck but not most of these.

With the exception of Jeremy Noyes... who I promise is not representative of LECOM. (Also can this please not turn into a LECOM bashing thread? Not that I'm the staunchest defender of my school, but this guy was out of the ordinary by any way you can possibly look at it, and we have a LECOM thread once a month anyway, so it'd be cool to keep this one about the good DOs in the world.)
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I definitely don't think that's representative of LECOM at all. There were plenty of bad DOs I could have put up (Joseph Mercola went to CCOM). But that was by far the most bizarre so I put it up lol.
 
ortnakas said:
This is a really cool list actually! I knew Dr. Blanck but not most of these.

With the exception of Jeremy Noyes... who I promise is not representative of LECOM. (Also can this please not turn into a LECOM bashing thread? Not that I'm the staunchest defender of my school, but this guy was out of the ordinary by any way you can possibly look at it, and we have a LECOM thread once a month anyway, so it'd be cool to keep this one about the good DOs in the world.)
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Hey, glass half full! It was another LECOM student who turned him in! 😉

CCmetal94 said:
after fellow LECOM DO student and girlfriend, Elizabeth Fleming, reported him to the FBI.
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happypremed1 said:
NSU is known to have a lot of hot med students, right? And this doesn't include the other professional students and the undergrads 😉
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Yep! Did my undergrad here as well and worked without a lot of theDO students there as well!
 
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