What's the difference between an MD and a DO?!
Question:
What's the difference between an MD and a DO?
I see that DO's can specialize in things like ob-gyn and other medical fields but are not MDs but DOs... what's the difference?
Answers:
There is not much difference. Both M.D.s and D.O.s go to 4 years of medical school. M.D.s go to "allopathic" schools and D.O.s go to "osteopathic" schools. D.O.s learn OMT (Osteopathic Manipulation Therapy), which is a bit like chiropractic but more whole-body focused. Both M.D.s and D.O.s go through residency; this is extra training in your chosen specialty, which takes another 3-8 years. I am an MD; I work with 2 DOs. They are just as well-trained as I am.