How will your name be on your white coat?

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How will your name be on your white coat?

  • Dr. John Doe

    Votes: 49 31.6%

  • John Doe, D.O.

    Votes: 105 67.7%
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This question is for all you future DOs and maybe for all the DOs out there. How are you going to have your name on your coat, Dr. John Doe or John Doe, D.O.?
 
JMC, D.O.

I can't wait until someone says something to me about it too. I'm gonna have fun. Yea, its cool being bigger than everyone else 😎
 
hmm, arent there any other options?

like for instance -- Me, P.i.m.p.

on a serious note though, prolly the latter.
 
It seems that so far, putting DO is winning. Can anyone explain why you would add DO. If you just put Dr., patients may not be confused with the DO letters and won't bother you with the question of what is a DO. Also, I think many DOs do this.
 
What about one coat of each????

Personally, I am betting I am too damn tired and playing scutmonkey once I hit internship to gave a damn. Besides...I have more initals than that to put on my coat 🙂
 
QuinnNSU said:
Putting "Dr. John Smith, DO" isn't the correct form.

My lab coat says
QuinnNSU, DO
Emergency Medicine

Q, DO
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Not what I meant....but I'll go fix it...just for you quinn 🙂
 
PLEASE, PLEASE put Dr. John Doe, DO so I can have a great laugh at your expense.

The only fools who do stuff like that are quack chiropractors.
 
Dr. John Doe is too generic.

It may not mean you are a physician at all. You could be a D.C., O.D., Ph.D., Psy.D., Pharm.D., etc.
 
Insert said:
It seems that so far, putting DO is winning. Can anyone explain why you would add DO. If you just put Dr., patients may not be confused with the DO letters and won't bother you with the question of what is a DO. Also, I think many DOs do this.
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If patients are confused, give them a flyer. You know AOA has them.

Where I live, people know what DO's are, so I'm not worried/don't care.
 
However the hospital does it.

What a silly-assed concern.
 
My thought is that we are not DO's until we graduate. When we are in med school we are the same as we've always been - our name.
 
jdanie2 said:
My thought is that we are not DO's until we graduate. When we are in med school we are the same as we've always been - our name.
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This is about post-graduate white coats, not med school white coats
 
OSUdoc08 said:
This is about post-graduate white coats, not med school white coats
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Yes, I was talking about post graduate white coats. Flighterdoc, physicians in private practice don't have to follow what the hospital says. They can put what they want.

What do you guys think of DOs that just put Dr. because they want it like that and not because the hospital says to. Are they embarassed by the initials? I am still undecided as what is the better way to do it. On the one hand I will be happy to be a DO and want to show that I am but on the other hand I do not want to be explaining my initials to every other patient I see.
 
Doesn't really matter to me. If was working in the ED I would probably go Dr danwsu since few people know what a DO is and I want patients to know that I'm the doc thats going to treat them. If I was some office based specialist I would probably go danwsu DO. People would already know via referrel that I'm their doc.

Not that it is that much of a hassel explaining that a DO is a doc in large patient settings. But if I had to choose of the top of my head I would go with the most convenient way.
 
people are gonna know ur a doctor, regardless of what letters u got on ur chest... as long as its on a white coat..and u got a funky little stethescope around ur neck. when i was in college shadowing doc's, pateints came up to me asking me questions and referring to me as doc just cuz i had a white coat on, even though i had a stupid badge that said OBSERVER.

some people are too worried about something that they probably will face once or twice in their life.


*sigh* but Dr. Octagon sounds so much cooler than Octagon, DO 😕
 
It is my opinion that having the title Dr. Soandso on your coat is a sign of insecurity. Yes it might make life a bit easier in terms of patients not always asking you, but its just not proper. My vote is this:

PACtoDOC, DO
Resident
Family Medicine

And my guess is that only the rare patient is going to ask you what your initials stand for if you correctly introduce yourself as a physician. I rarely ever in 6 years have been asked what PA-C stands for behind my name on my nametag. And I can't introduce myself as "doctor". So if I don't have any trouble with it, my guess is none of you will either as DO's. But I just feel not to show the DO is a sign of weakness. Its not like you have to introduce yourself like this:

Hi, I am Dr. Soandso, and I will be your Osteopath today. That term is long since dead, and the initials are more on the coat to make sure someone can remember your name when they want to complain!!

And FYI. My uniform after residency will be missing a white coat. I actually plan to fluctuate between a casual suit without a tie, and Hawaiin shirts on Fridays!
 
First of all, me personally, after residency I do not plan on wearing the dreaded white coat unless I have to.

Second, who cares, ever notice that many MD's do not put MD at the end of their name too?
 
If the correct form is blahblah DO thats fine to. Like I said I don't really care either way.
 
Right now mine says:

DOSouthpaw
Student Osteopath


And when people ask me, "What's an Osteopath?" I just say, "I'll show you" and whip out some Mad OMT.
 
they make osteopath attendings at my hospital wear short pink coats with massive black silk screen D.O. slapped right on the back.
 
come on guys, give me a break! I really understand now what it is about! 🙄
 
VentdependenT said:
they make osteopath attendings at my hospital wear short pink coats with massive black silk screen D.O. slapped right on the back.
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Yeah, but the DO residents (ala vent) wear the pink coat just for style....
 
I see MD doctors all the time with Dr. John Smith. Does this mean they are insecure with a MD? No....no one cares....if it were up to me...i'd just have my name...screw the Dr. and DO at the end....im not in this profession for the benefit of people calling me Dr.

As long as I know my role and the patients know my role
 
Eyecon82 said:
I see MD doctors all the time with Dr. John Smith.
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I've never seen this. Does this happen often? Most MDs I see have their MD letters behind their name.
 
Insert said:
I've never seen this. Does this happen often? Most MDs I see have their MD letters behind their name.
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May depend on the geographical area...I live in chicago where it is exremely common to find DO's and MD's working together in group practice....when you first walk into the office, you can see all the Dr.'s and their credentials listed, but when you see them in person....they just have Dr. John Smith on their white coat
 
Insert said:
I've never seen this. Does this happen often? Most MDs I see have their MD letters behind their name.
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actually I see a good mix of both...again its a personal preference....
 
Has anyone noticed that this poll has a sexual bias? (Dr. John/Jane Doe or Jane/John Doe DO) 😀 😀 Sorry for the psychotic PCness, I guess that is what I get after several years of brainwashing at a liberal UC school. 😉
 
Since it appears to be common then, I've changed my mind. Before I was going to put DO after my name, but now I'm going to opt for the Dr. in front of my name. This thread has helped me.
 
is there an actual reason you can't use both (ie Dr Raspberry Swirl, DO) ? or is that just some sort of white coat taboo or something? seems to me that regardless of which one you pick, someone's gonna have a problem with it. 🙁
 
Gosh.

I think I will just be Dr. 'First name', following in the footsteps of Dr. Ruth, Dr. Phil and Dr. Death......
 
delicatefade said:
Out of curiosity, why the MSPT as well as DO?
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Probably because he feels that the more initials you can put after your name, the more important you are. Frankly, I think putting MSPT after your name once you have a terminal degree in medicine would look as stupid as a physician putting D.O., B.S. after their name.

I like some of the people you see on SDN that have a million freakin' intials after their name, MSN, BSN, CRNA, EMT-P, BA, CSP, MBA, MBBS, AS, CPA, CNM, CRNP, PA-C, ... it drives me cRazY. It's so damn pretentious!
 
MSPT=Master of Science - Physical Therapy
 
I think putting added degrees behind the DO is personal and goes by a case by case basis. Why not if you have something else to offer for example PT, PhD, DPM, JD, MBA...One has spent a lot of money and time into earning the degree and if one uses it as well as the medical degree, I don't see a problem. As for non-terminal degrees such as a BA/BS, I really don't see a reason to use them at all, that's just ludicrous. I have seen DO, RN and MD, RN and I thought it was rather odd but WHO CARES! If the person in the coat is a competent physician, it really shouldn't matter. The majority of docs I see just have Dr. J. Doe or J. Doe, DO or J. Doe, MD...or J. Doe, DO, PhD or J. Doe, MD, PhD.
 
Eyecon82 said:
I see MD doctors all the time with Dr. John Smith. Does this mean they are insecure with a MD? No....no one cares....if it were up to me...i'd just have my name...screw the Dr. and DO at the end....im not in this profession for the benefit of people calling me Dr.

As long as I know my role and the patients know my role
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At Temple it's: First name Last name, Degree.
 
DrKimble hit the nail on the head!!! Actually this (DO, MSPT) was a joke from undergrad but if I do go into PM&R I may actually go ahead and leave it that way because it would be relevant. Also my future plans include the possibility of co-ownership in a PT practice so displaying the degree would again be relevant.

-J, MSPreTentious
 
I can see the point if it was clinically relevant. I think I would leave my coat as delicatefade, DO but have my business card say delicatefade, DO, PT.
 
I've thought about this again... granted i do have a choice ...


wearing a white coat and a stethescope in a hospital setting, everyone will know u as a physician.

now if u feel the need that having a DO next to ur name will provide additionally to ur practice ( interms of getting more pateints, for example) then it seems suggestible to include it on ur coat.

if not, then whats the point. we all goin to school to become doctor's arent we? to become doctors that practice medicine.. so having Dr. John Doe seems sufficint. it keeps everyone on a level playing field which is always nice

as for the argument of having only Dr. in front of ur name and confusing it with other doctorate degrees.. ive never seen a phd that ive confused for a physican. and if u are afraid of it happening, wear a stethescope around ur neck for show :laugh:
 
How about John Doe, DO, PhD, BS, MBA, MPH I've seen more than one of those combination.
 
Just bumping for any new opinions.
 
Does one also list other things like Little Jonny Doe, Jr. DO. MSc. PhD,FCAA,
that will get expensive for the bus cards
 
FutureDoc I guess you beat me to it..
so i will change mine to

Jonny Doe, DO, Sagitarious
 
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