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Just a couple of observations that I've made:
1. There is a big difference between physicians now and say thirty years ago. Many of the physicians who graduated back then didn't even have to do a residency. I've met several M.D. who have stated that they felt discriminated against for this very reason. The D.O.s that have felt such "discrmination" may not have done a residency (since you stated they had 90 years experience between the three of them). Also, the fact is that physicians (M.D. or D.O.) who graduated that far back may not receive as much respect from their younger peers.
2. The quality of D.O. graduates have changed signficantly over the last thirty years. When I rotated through UC Davis and Stanford, I met several D.O.s there. At UC Davis, the current chief resident of Neurosurgery is Jeff Mimbs, D.O. There were also Orthopedic trauma fellows there who were D.O.s. While doing a subinternship in Medicine at Stanford, I became interested in Cardiology. I noticed that two of the Cardiologists there were D.O.s as well. One of my classmates also matched at Stanford for Pediatrics. Our students also rotated at UCSF and I was told that the Melanoma fellow in the Dermatology department is also a D.O. My guess is that Stanford and UC Davis' Neurosurgery and Orthopedic Surgery department got over this "stereotype".
http://cardiology.stanford.edu/
Click on the faculty section. I can only cite my experiences in the Northern California area.
1. There is a big difference between physicians now and say thirty years ago. Many of the physicians who graduated back then didn't even have to do a residency. I've met several M.D. who have stated that they felt discriminated against for this very reason. The D.O.s that have felt such "discrmination" may not have done a residency (since you stated they had 90 years experience between the three of them). Also, the fact is that physicians (M.D. or D.O.) who graduated that far back may not receive as much respect from their younger peers.
2. The quality of D.O. graduates have changed signficantly over the last thirty years. When I rotated through UC Davis and Stanford, I met several D.O.s there. At UC Davis, the current chief resident of Neurosurgery is Jeff Mimbs, D.O. There were also Orthopedic trauma fellows there who were D.O.s. While doing a subinternship in Medicine at Stanford, I became interested in Cardiology. I noticed that two of the Cardiologists there were D.O.s as well. One of my classmates also matched at Stanford for Pediatrics. Our students also rotated at UCSF and I was told that the Melanoma fellow in the Dermatology department is also a D.O. My guess is that Stanford and UC Davis' Neurosurgery and Orthopedic Surgery department got over this "stereotype".
http://cardiology.stanford.edu/
Click on the faculty section. I can only cite my experiences in the Northern California area.