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osteopathic medicine?
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:33 am
by Dalya
has anyone even heard of this? i discovered it by accident in my MCAT book and looked it up and stuff. basically its more holistic than "allopathic" medicine (normal med school). You get a DO (doctorate of osteopathy) instead of an MD, but you can still prescribe drugs and work in normal hospitals and all that. It's supposed to focus more on the person as a whole and preventive medicine, which I like. You're much less likely to specialize. Like 70% or something go into family practice/internal medicine.
Does anyone have an osteopathic physician or know one or know anything about it besides what I can read online?
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:36 am
by mere1975
Not really, except that there is a
school in Fort Worth for it.
- Mere "my old boss' son is a DO" 1975
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 7:50 am
by roach
you should be an author.
or just be a student. it seems that you really like learning, if your family is paying take it and they will stop and when that happens you'll find another way... watch kicking and screaming, be our eric stoltz. buy us a dictionary.
ro"drunk jason wants to argue about things, but he'd also love to see you learn until you can't no more"ach
ro"my family paid... i'm such a rich kid!!!"ach
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:21 am
by squeezle
osteopathic medicine used to focus on the manual manipultion of the body as treatments (hence the osteo part of the name) but now they there is not a lot of difference in the practice of osteopathic and allopathic medicine. if is one of the few forms of medicine that survived in the united states after the flexner report (google it). i've worked with the DO that started the clinic for the working poor that i posted for you a while back.
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:32 am
by mere1975
Are chiropractics a subset of osteopathic medicine?
- Mere "I am too lazy to research, learn or author" 1975
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:11 pm
by squeezle
Are chiropractics a subset of osteopathic medicine?
- Mere "I am too lazy to research, learn or author" 1975
no, it was a different tradition but chriopractic, naturopathy, homeopathy and osteopathy do have some similar foundations
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:45 pm
by ifihadahifi
no, it was a different tradition but chriopractic, naturopathy, homeopathy and osteopathy do have some similar foundations
They were all started by a mystic canadian grocer?
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:57 pm
by aquaphase
no, it was a different tradition but chriopractic, naturopathy, homeopathy and osteopathy do have some similar foundations
They were all started by a mystic canadian grocer?
and transvestite mounties.
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 6:23 pm
by squeezle
no, it was a different tradition but chriopractic, naturopathy, homeopathy and osteopathy do have some similar foundations
They were all started by a mystic canadian grocer?
and transvestite mounties.
exactly
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 6:33 pm
by Jan
Are chiropractics a subset of osteopathic medicine?
- Mere "I am too lazy to research, learn or author" 1975
no, it was a different tradition but chriopractic, naturopathy, homeopathy and osteopathy do have some similar foundations
Homeopathy is a load of bollocks.
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 7:49 pm
by aquaphase
Are chiropractics a subset of osteopathic medicine?
- Mere "I am too lazy to research, learn or author" 1975
no, it was a different tradition but chriopractic, naturopathy, homeopathy and osteopathy do have some similar foundations
Homeopathy is a load of bollocks.
speak for yourself. I know many many people (myself included) who have benefitted from it.
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:10 pm
by ifihadahifi
speak for yourself. I know many many people (myself included) who have benefitted from it.
Ha! Sucker!
hi-placeboeffect-fi
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:03 pm
by Jan
speak for yourself. I know many many people (myself included) who have benefitted from it.
Ha! Sucker!
hi-placeboeffect-fi
+1
Its all a placebo, with no scientific evidence to back it up. It's all nonsense about water having a "memory". Absolute shit.
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:22 pm
by Steveums
speak for yourself. I know many many people (myself included) who have benefitted from it.
Ha! Sucker!
hi-placeboeffect-fi
+1
Its all a placebo, with no scientific evidence to back it up. It's all nonsense about water having a "memory". Absolute shit.
+2
anecdotal evidence shouldn't fly in the medical industry. i find it amazing that straight-thinking people get taken up in this crap
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:25 pm
by roach
pot gives you an appetite. fact.