Izzy, I would be in the thick of it... but I went military. So they interrupted my residency to let me play doctor over here in the sandbox right now.

In fact, I'm a D.O. too. Yes, there's still some discrimination in the US, but technically we're equivalent in every state to an M.D. "Not hiring" DO's is likely cause for a lawsuit. More likely, the state isn't super DO-friendly, ie harder to get a license and stuff, so there aren't a lot of DO's in the area. The downside of a DO degree is that it's not as internationally accepted as an MD degree, if you're looking for that.

Chisel, there are LOTS of places that are fine. I mean, there's probably over 100 medical schools in the US. They aren't all in the festering armpits of an inner city! I went to school in the midwest, a population of about 20K. Minus the ice storm and occasional tornado, it was fine (in fact, the tornado hit about 2 days before graduation, when I wasn't in town). Most states have at least one school; Alaska, Idaho and Montana being exceptions I can think of. However, a lot of the states in the pacific northwest won't take out-of-area students, since the schools in Washington and Oregon typically have agreements with those other states to take students from there.

https://www.aamc.org/about/medicalschools/
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