High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O. or DO) is a professional doctoral degree for physicians in the United States. Holders of the D.O. degree are known as osteopathic physicians and have the same rights, privileges, and responsibilities as physicians with a Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.). D.O. physicians are licensed to practice the full scope of medicine and surgery in all 50 states. Depending on the state, licensure may be issue from a combined board of D.O. and M.D. physicians, or a from a separate board. Osteopathic physicians comprise 7 percent of the total U.S. physician population; there are over 77,784 D.O. physicians in the country, of which 69,429 are in active practice. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по...