D.O. & Osteopathic, differance of or can be both?

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D.O. & Osteopathic, differance of or can be both?

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Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O. or DO) is an academic degree offered in the United States. It is a graduate-level first professional degree for physicians and surgeons, requiring four years to complete. Holders of the D.O. degree are known as osteopathic physicians. D.O.s are trained much in the same way as M.D.s, with the addition of osteopathic manipulative medicine techniques. The existence of this distinction and of D.O.s as licensed physicians is not widely known.[