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Osteopathic Surgeon
Started by residentangel
Osteopathic refers to the degree delivered at the completion of an osteopathic medicine program. You become a surgeon through residency. The reason you saw varying earnings is because different fields of surgery pay different amounts of money.
Like Bac said ... the degree doesn't have any say on your salary ... that has to do with residency. What type of surgeon?? General, Ortho, ENT, PRS, Uro, Neuro??? All different salaries. Google physician salaries.
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MD orthos start at around 400k, Im expecting to start around 200k because I am a DO. Thats life.
You of all people know this isn't true. Don't influence the youngins!
Truth. DO surgeons make the same. Your degree has no bearing on your salary.
False, DOs get paid in potions and spell books to help us excel in our witchcraft.
I assume you're talking about after a DO has completed his or her mandatory five years of work on a volunteer basis.
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Just curious, where do you get that logic? There is absolutely no difference in salary between MD and DO orthopods. I wouldn't have that mindset so early on in your career either. You get paid based on the location, how busy the practice is, what type of orthopedic specialty you are in, and if you're going into academics.
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Haha.
The OPs never seem to come back after making these sorts of threads.... interesting
The OPs never seem to come back after making these sorts of threads.... interesting
\Well, I was planning to start making money after graduation, but then I remembered that I wasn't smart enough to be an MD and decided to go to a DO school, and I remembered that for the first 3 years out of school I have to pay a hospital to let me work there!
Ah well. Silly me.
[If you can't tell I'm being stupid and sarcastic, please for the love of God DON'T GO INTO MEDICINE]
Ah well. Silly me.
[If you can't tell I'm being stupid and sarcastic, please for the love of God DON'T GO INTO MEDICINE]
You said it man. Nobody ****s with the Jesus.
Eight-year-olds, Dude.
Do you see what happens, larry?
Probably because the OP asked a legit question, and can't decide whether some people's answers are sarcasm or not
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