Re: Ouch-no harm intendedby DO MS IV (no login)I don't know what type of experience your sister had had while going through school but why is it so hard to believe that patients in general don't ask what osteopathic is? Granted the lay person you encounter on the street may ask out of curiosity but I said in the clinical setting, one is either a physician or a medical student while taking care of a person's medical needs. Even so when they do ask, why would it be problematic explaining what osteopathic medicine is? The truth is osteopathic medicine encompasses all the educational standards of allopathic medicine plus the "hands on" therapeutic and diagnostic modalities. Why should it bother anyone to explain he is more well trained and capable of doing more? Anyway, my simple statement is this: If you have all the problems in podiatry as you seem to make it out to be, go fix it. Don't try to dissuade applicants from taking an objective look at all the professions and decide for themselves. I'm sure if they do, osteopathic medicine, with all its choices and opportunities, will come out somewhere on top. from IP address 66.140.44.175 Goto Forum Home |
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