I've never heard this/can't tell if you are being sarcastic.
No sarcasm this time, just a foggy memory on it. I dug up my notes just for you. We were told:
-it was best for family practice/primary care docs, they could admit at any hospital. it sucked for specialists because CA required that they had done their training at an AMA hospital, so they couldn't really say yes to the merger and had to leave the state to practice
- Cali. med. assoc. did not integrate them into their societies and called them 'little-MDs'
-the degree was worthless outside of CA
-~2000 DOs signed this contract that had these terms, paid $65, and attended a weekend course converting them to MDs
-they were not allowed to say they were DOs
-there would be no further DO licensing in the state
- there would be no more teaching of osteopathic medicine
- UCI a DO school would be turned into an MD school
At the time this occured there where more DOs in CA than in any other state, so it was a dark day for the DO world. In 1974 the CA supreme court overturned the amalgamation of MDs and DOs, allowing DOs to once again practice in the state.
