Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: no, it does not matter.
Many patients do not even realize their doctor is a D.O. unless they happen to see the degree hanging on the wall, said Norman Gevitz, a sociologist who has written a book and dozens of publications about the field of osteopathic medicine.
Spoiler: D.O.s are majority primary care. That’s different but not very different.
Dr. John Licciardone, a researcher at the University of North Texas’ Health Science Center who has published several papers on the profession, doubts that many rank-and-file D.O.s would care about being lumped together with their M.D. peers. As the field has expanded, more and more doctors of osteopathic medicine seem perfectly content to not stand out from the crowd, he said: “They just want to be a physician.”
I think actually most D.O.s consider it largely a success that the field has just become lumped in with physicians, generally. We’re all just doing medicine.
Anyway, there seems to be no particular impetus for the article. It’s fine, but no banner mentioned, much less flinging or breezes, so it’s at best 7/10.