Good bet if you were gonna have a problem, you’d have known about it by now. 
If you could pass as an extra on the Simpsons, that’s a good sign. Or bad. I forget which
Or as the old joke goes… What do you call the person who graduated at the very bottom of their class in medical school?
Doctor
My father was a DO. Back in his day there was a bit of a stigma against DOs, as if they were somehow inferior to MDs, but he took exactly the same classes and had the exact same training as an MD. As a DO he had some additional training that an MD did not have, specifically things like hypnosis and chiropracty.
My cousin (who coincidentally is named after my father) followed in his footsteps, also became a DO, and is now one of the country’s top cardiologists specializing in heart failure and heart transplant surgery.
These days the stigma against DOs seems to be gone. Everyone seems to recognize that they get the same training as an MD.
Necroed from September '24.
Did the patient also revive?
For sure. At our family doctors, when I glance at the diplomas I see a mix of MDs and DOs, and it makes no difference to us who sees us.
That doctor was so bad, when encountering a diseased finger he decided to take the whole foot.
I don’t know how much of this is still true, but my sister worked over 40 years in hospitals. One thing that she learned very early – NEVER contradict a doctor. Doctors ruled the hospital and it would be your job on the line if you crossed one. That attitude could still persist in some places.
This doctor might revive the stigma.
If Florida doctors have the ability to single-handedly ruin the reputation of their medical degrees, medicine is doomed.
They also smell different. That’s not something that is discussed much but a mammal liver smells like a mammal liver. We all know what liver smells like, right? Spleens don’t smell like that.
I don’t expect the OR folks to go face down in removed tissue specimens but you don’t need to be Logan/Wolverine to whiff the difference.
If you’ve lived for years without a liver, the entire medical establishment would like to know how. 
And it was the wrong foot.
I would think that by the time the organs are far enough apart that you can smell one but not the other, it’s already too late.
but this is the second patient he “killed” so that should have raised red flags; even though he wasn’t ‘employed’ by them. people will now look askance at the hospital itself
As with commercial flight cockpits, the culture has changed in ORs - the pilot/surgeon is supposed to listen to “underlings” noting problems.
It was also the wrong patient.
Glad to hear it. It used to be a pretty toxic environment if you had some bad doctors.
Many doctors are contracted employees; I’ll leave further details to people who know more about this than I do. Nowadays, the DO and MD programs are very similar, the main difference being which school the person attended. A DO is fine for people who want to pursue family practice, while and MD is almost required to this day for people who want to pursue more specialized or academic medicine.
Back in my hospital-pharmacy days, we kept a single dose of the pneumococcal vaccine available at the time on hand for splenectomy patients. One evening, we got two orders - one for a trauma patient, another who had their spleen removed due to cancer - and my judgment was to give the immediate dose to the cancer patient, and let the floor know that the trauma patient, who was otherwise healthy, would get it a day or two later.