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No, OD is not an abbreviation for a physician's degree in the US (MD or DO are for those types of practitioners). OD can stand for other things in medical abbreviations:

OD can stand for an overdose.

OD also stands for Doctor of Optometry.

OD may also stand for right eye, Oculus (eye) dexter (right) in Latin.

You may be thinking of DO. This is a medical degree in the US that is abbreviated DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine), and which is the equivalent of an MD (Doctor of Medicine) in practice. The training is also very similar for the two doctorate degrees. They are both really doctors.

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