What is the difference between a Medical Doctor or a Doctor?

What is the difference between a Medical Doctor or a Doctor? I want to know and if you could make a list as well please?|||A medical doctor is someone who has made it through medical school and practices medicine.





A doctor is anyone else who has made it through a doctorate program. Just like my high school band director is called doctor. Or someone can get a doctorate in english.|||Doctors (physicians in this case and not PhD's) can be either medical doctors (MD) or doctor of osteopathy (DO). Both are considered doctors, can prescribe medication, can specialize, etc. The difference is confusing at best.





DO's are more into joint manipulation as a method of allowing the body to heal itself naturally. MD's are more into medication as a treatment. This is an over-simplification, but you get the idea.





Also, most newer DO's are more likely to treat people exactly as an MD would. It's the older DO's that were more into manipulation as treatment.|||A medical doctor (MD) is anyone who graduates from medical school. (There is a joke about this. What do you call a guy who graduates last from his medical school? A doctor.)





There are other kinds of doctors, some have something to do with medicine (such as DO as others have mentioned here), some have nothing to do with medicine---these are usually PhD, short for Doctor of Philosophy.|||A medical Doctor is a person that specialize in Medicine. And A Doctor could be a doctor of anything, like Chiropractic, religion, Business, etc.