What are your feelings around osteopathic medicine?
Those providers who get their DO's and go onto become fully license have my respect and fill a vital niche in healthcare. What do you think of them?
I think they are pretty good because I feel like they go beyond JUST the medicine part, and look at the body as a whole
Right, I enjoy the skill set of they bring including the manipulation of joints in order to treat disease.
That they do.  I didn't realize that there are approximately 108,000 licensed osteopathic doctors in the U.S.
it is becoming even more popular, one Dr. Gilliar, referred to it as the new "jazz of medicine," denoting it's attractiveness as an alternative to mainstream medicine.
Yes, and considering that it was just founded in the late 1800's in Kirksville Missouri, it's still probably considered a rather 'new' form of medicine
Correct, and yet another reason why the profession found by Andrew Still would be referred to as jazz since it was developed in the US.
I also find it very impressive that the medical professionals who choose to go into osteopathic medicine have to go through an additional 200 hours of training
the middle of the 20th century, the profession had moved closer to mainstream medicine, adopting modern public health and biomedical principles. American "osteopaths" became "osteopathic medical doctors", ultimately achieving full practice rights as medical doctors in all 50 states, including serving in the United States Armed Forces as physicians.
In modern medicine, any distinction between the MD and the DO professions has eroded steadily. Diminishing numbers of DO graduates enter primary care fields, fewer use osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), and increasing numbers of
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