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Please forgive me 1) for the superficiality of this post, and 2) if this is not the right place to ask.

I’m an EM attending a few years out of training, and a DO. I’m decently well-networked, so I was recently referred by a colleague to help a research group at a very prestigious institution. I ended up doing little work at all, but they have submitted the article to an equally prestigious journal and included me as a co-author. The only thing is, they listed my degree as MD instead of DO.

I don’t want to correct them because I contributed very little to this project and I don’t want to create any friction. Also, frankly, because of the pedigree of this institution, I’m not sure they would want a DO on the author list, and I don’t want to shoot myself in the foot.

Does it matter that the degree is wrong or can I just let it ride? I don’t care about the correctness if it doesn’t matter for any other reason.