So I was doing a Google search...

[Dr Trek 1]

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Ok so I was just doing a random DO Google search and I found quite a few biographhies of physicians with both DOs and MDs. These, in particular, were really interesting:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807EEDE1730F933A05751C1A9679C8B63

http://www.twbookmark.com/authors/65/1847/index.html

Why would anyone graduate from both an allo and osteo med school??

 

[EctopicFetus]

Take note of the ages of these dinosaurs. Maybe back in the day there was some reason to do it. There isnt one today unless you just want to put off actually working.

 

[Taus]

they could be from CA from 60/70's....see the stickied thread at the top of the osteo forum about that....or from the emigre program at NYCOM (foreign MD's who came here and earned a DO)

 

[dr.z]

unless you just want to put off actually working.

and pay like $50,000 a year.

 

[Nate]

they could be from CA from 60/70's....see the stickied thread at the top of the osteo forum about that....or from the emigre program at NYCOM (foreign MD's who came here and earned a DO)

Click the top link, the obituary states that he went to DO school and then 9 years later he attended and MD school. But that was in the 30s, time have changed. Can you imagine the debt, and then to work in fmaily medicine after all that... wow

 

[Taus]

Click the top link, the obituary states that he went to DO school and then 9 years later he attended and MD school. But that was in the 30s, time have changed. Can you imagine the debt, and then to work in fmaily medicine after all that... wow

yeah...shouldve read that first.....and yeah I don't have the history timeline in near me...but DO's practice rights weren't what they are today

 

[faith2DO]

One of my physician friends told me about his friends who have obtained MD degrees in other countries and rather than going through the US "waiting period" and other criteria to become licensed in the states (I don't know about all these regulations), but they just decided to go to DO school because it was just quicker to become licensed. So, this may also be a reason someone would have both degrees.