Is it common/appropriate for people with an MBBS to instead use MD after their name? This topic has come up a few times recently. There’s been no consensus. DMs are open if your prefer to discuss privately.
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Most DOs don't do osteopathy after they graduate, because they enter much the same residencies as MDs. Indeed, recently DO and MD residencies have come under the same supervisory body. By the time DOs and MDs finish residency, they are basically the same.
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In Europe, Australia, etc., DOs are more akin to chiropractors than MDs. That's where misunderstandings come in. US docs don't understand the disdain in the UK and Europe towards DOs, and UK and European skeptics don't understand DOs are equivalent in the US and are colleagues.
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I discovered this years ago, when I encountered UK skeptics/docs harshly criticizing DOs. I was puzzled. It took the UK folks explaining to me that, there, DOs are much more like chiropractors than MDs.
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I also point out that some of the finest docs I've known have been DOs. For example, the best surgical critical care doc I ever knew was an anesthesiologist who happened to be a DO who helped train me during my residency.
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