It's a con like osteopathic "medicine". D.O. should be shunned and rejected because it's pretending to be legitimate and/or legitimized.

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dghlsakjg an hour ago | parent [-]

DOs are sorta weird in the US. They go to real medical school for 4 years like MDs and practice actual licensed medicine at the same level as an MD. They can even call themselves physicians.

Non DO osteopaths are not trained with any sort of scientifically backed curriculum.

	▲	toast0 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I have a cousin who is a DO (in the US). It seems like it's basically an out to get effectively an MD with a slightly lower bar for admission. Once you're in the program, it's basically the same as an MD program, and then you go through residency programs on an equal basis with MDs.