help please, thank you.

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Are you allowed to practice medicine completely unrestricted in the United States with a Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) degree; or do you act more like an assistant to the MD. If someone could help me I would really appreciate it. I am new to the whole premed scene. Every time I ask anybody this question they start to laugh at me, and don't give me a straight answer. Also the whole DO thing seems like chiropractic medicine to me. Thanks for your help.

 

[willen101383]

Are you allowed to practice medicine completely unrestricted in the United States with a Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) degree; or do you act more like an assistant to the MD. If someone could help me I would really appreciate it. I am new to the whole premed scene. Every time I ask anybody this question they start to laugh at me, and don't give me a straight answer. Also the whole DO thing seems like chiropractic medicine to me. Thanks for your help.

While I suspect this to be a troll post: you are not an assistant to the MD ...you for all intents and purposes you ARE an MD. Different letters is more or less the only difference+ training in osteopathic manipulative medicine.

You have a completely unrestricted license to practice medicine and surgery in the USA, get paid the same salary, can practice in the same fields as MDs, etc.

You know how dentists are either a DDS or a DMD..but theyre still the same thing in practice? The same thing with MDs and DOs.

So you are basically an MD with a little bit of "chiropractic" type stuff that you are trained to do...but 98% of DO grads dont practice IRL.

Got it?

 

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Cool, so they are basically the same thing. So what is this whole OMM thing about. Thanks.

 

[PeachyPhd]

Cool, so they are basically the same thing. So what is this whole OMM thing about. Thanks.

Please don't cross-post in different threads. It's not nice.

 

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Please don't cross-post in different threads. It's not nice.

Okay I am very sorry...........how do I close this one.