Mongolian gazelle migration Safari over the remote steppe for one of Asiaâs largest remaining wildlife populations. Every year in eastern Mongolia, a million gazelles migrate over grounds that border Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and China.
MD does NOT stand for medical doctor, although that's the common interpretation. MD is a Latin abbreviation, Medicinae Doctor. Its English translation is Doctor of Medicine. Similarly, a PhD stands for Philosophiae Doctor, or Doctor of Philosophy, not Philosophical Doctor. We don't use Latin much anymore, so we assign the letters a reasonable English equivalent medical doctor.
But these old D.O.s are dumb so they don't change their degree to better represent that they are indeed medical doctors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. The abbreviation D.O. after a physician's name stands for Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.As mentioned in the answer immediately above mine, a Doctor of Optometry, which is different from a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, is given the initials O.D. after their name.The initials often get confused but the professions are quite different.onfidence votes 2.3K. Doctor of Optometry is O.D. and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine is D.O. The old aging DOs in the AOA could help eliminate the disrepancy by changing their initials to M.D., D.O., like the younger D.O.s want.