So I'm insecure for pointing out that your stuck on certain stigmas. Personally, I'm proud that I'm going to a D.O. school. The town I'm from has M.D.'s and D.O.'s in every branch of medicne and they work together often in the same groups. The thing I don't understand is that your attitude seems to reflect the fact that you think of a D.O. as a second class doctor. The fact is that we are both regulated on the federal and state levels and held to the same standards, so how could we ever be second class. That's like saying that someone who is of different ethnic background with the same degree is somehow below you. I personally believe that there is no difference in the quality of training. Once we graduate, we all practice American medicine, that has slightly shifted in the past couple of years. I think that without both the M.D.'s and D.O.'s our profession would not be as good as it is today. M.D.'s have shifted to wanting a better doc/pt relationship and have become more wholistic(I wonder where they got that idea???) and D.O.'s have used alot less OMT and more mainstream medicine. So both branches have made each other better. So no I'm not insecure, just wanted to point out a few things you said in your post. I will never understand why stigmas exist against D.O.'s, yet carrib grads and FMG's are allowed into this country every day. Yet, I don't consider them any less than I, just that D.O. and M.D.'s that are trained in America are held to the same standards. The fact is that I wanted to be a doctor, and have always seen Osteopathic doctors. I don't care about the ranking of my medschool or residency, how good of a physician I become will carry me further in my life.
