Does DO mean Dumb Ox

No. "DO" means "Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine." In the USA, DOs are equivalent to MDs in all medicine practices and surgery.

However, this question is not entirely incorrect. Perhaps, DOs in the USA should possibly change their archaic degree from "DO" to "MD" to help patients realize they are indeed Medical Doctors. The fact the old and aged DOs in the AOA do not change the DO to MD degree, then perhaps this old DOs should be labeled appropriately as Dumb Oxes (from new DOs graduating who definitely want this degree change to MD).

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I believe what the author above is trying to convey is that the AOA leaders, who run the AOA and collect the fees of all AOA DO members, do not want to change the DO degree to MD,DO or MD, as most of the AOA members. These aging DOs do not want change for the better or for modern times. These old DOs just want to keep the DO degree the same and collect checks for due fees from the modern graduating new DOs. These old DOs never send out a vote to its DO members asking for a 1 DO - 1 vote for the DO to MD or MD,DO degree change.