Freshnstylin said:
I really want all those anti-DOs in osteopathic school to do this...it would be great to cut the fat and keep those proud to be DOs in the field
you'd be 'cutting' more than you think. the majority of DO students did not apply solely to DO school, and the few that did (save the non trads and those with personal situations) are--quite frankly--stupid. why would you limit your chances of entering medical school based on some superficial attraction that DOs 'treat the patient as a whole'? Do you honestly know what the difference between a DO and an MD is as an undergrad, aside from what the AOA and various other sites tell you?
I'm sick to death of people that argue this crap. It's as if people such as yourself think the "real DOs" are the ones that parade around with "Proud to be a DO" bumber stickers...the ones that snicker at MDs because they're somehow inferior because they don't have OMM training...the ones that are so arrogant to think that blind generalizations like "DOs treat the patient, not the disease" hold water.
You people need to wake up and look at medicine in the 21st century--the overwhelming majority of DO students just want to be pysicians. Besides some non-trads and personal situations, no pre-med'er in his/her right mind would apply only DO--those that do are naive and have some utopian view of osteopathy inflated by a false sense of what the reality of medicine is: MD = DO, and the only people that argue the contrary are the hard liners on both sides, MDs and DOs--the MDs that think DOs are inferior, and the DOs that think MDs are inferior.
Being an MD doesn't prevent you from being the kind of physician you want to be or prevent you from following whatever philosophy you prescribe to--you think the DO philosophy fits you better? Great, but your philosophy is not going to be 'dirtied' by going to MD school.
It's as if you think DO school would provide the only means for you to practice medicine the way want to, or more accurately, the way you
think you want to 10 years before the fact.
I really don't care if a handful of you rebut me and argue the opposite, because you're the exception...and I'm curious as to how in the world you (as a pre-med student) had the knowledge and forsight to know what the true professional differences between MDs and DOs. The truth is, you simply bought into the whole concept of DOs being 'better' physicians, and that DOs are more patient oriented. You can believe that 'til you're blue in the face, but that doesn't make it true, and if you're entering a workplace dominated by MDs thinking you're better than them, you're going to have a difficult time.
"...they should worship the DO school that is allowing them to achieve their dream of being a physician/surgeon..."
--That's a load of bullshi* if I've ever heard any. Being a DO doesn't require you to kiss the AOAs ass. That's an attitude of ignorance and complacency.
