haapai
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Post by haapai on Apr 26, 2014 21:41:53 GMT -5
I wouldn't assume that being a DO means limited admitting privileges. My old DO went out of his way to mention that he could admit to either the osteopathic hospital or the larger, fancier facility fifteen minutes farther away.
I'm not sure that all of the local MDs had admitting privileges at both hospitals, so being able to admit to the closer one might have been an advantage for him.
The larger, fancier hospital eventually took over the osteopathic hospital, so there isn't any distinction any more. Your local conditions may vary.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2014 9:54:42 GMT -5
My old DO has probably retired by now but he was quite fond of telling people that the difference between becoming a DO or an MD was one course when he went to med school. He was great! He gave me my first pap and when he found out that I was only getting a pap because I was working in a clinic where part of my job was telling young migrant farmworkers that a pap smear was an essential part of getting routine BC and no big deal (I had no use for BC or a pap at the time), his nurse/wife darn near hugged me. Then she offered to lift her shirt and and show me the the nipples that she'd had tattooed on after her double mastectomy. <sigh> It sounds torrid now, but I passed on the peek, wasn't uncomfortable at all, and found the entire experience totally life-changing and life-affirming. A year later, the MD that took the other half of the patient load in that small town agreed to stop practicing after writing too many scripts for too much strong stuff. That is how it was explained to me when I started billing. We had 2 Anesthesiologists in a practice that were DO's instead of MD's.
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