hmmmby herculean_foot (no login)dr. weismann, congratulations on being a successful D.P.M. I just want to tell you about osteopathic medicine a little bit. Your 99.99% of D.O. students not wanting to go D.O.comment......well i don't know where you get the number, but i'm in a D.O. school and majority of my classmates, myself included, could have gotten accepted to an M.D. school in the U.S. but chose a D.O. school (most have GPA 3.3 and higher and MCAT of 30 and higher and for me location was the key, cali). Your second comment about D.O.s practicing like M.D.s, D.O.s and M.D.s are similar, we take the same classes, do same rotations, same hospitals for residencies, of course D.O.s and M.D.s will be practicing similarly. I guess my view and yours differ, I see Osteopathic manipulation as an extra tool that i will be able to use to help my patients and you see it as B.S. that's ok, it's a free country and you're entitled to your opinion. Like i said before, congrats on making it with your practice, i'm sure it did take a lot of hard work. Since you're in a good position to influence a lot of people (2 medical committes? i think) wouldn't it be better to foster a good relationship with other practitioners (be it D.P.M.s, D.O.s, FMGs) than to make yourself above the rest by putting them down. This countries needs physicians (about 6000 Foreign Medical Graduates obtain residency spot in the US every year) so be it D.P.M, D.O., M.D., O.D., D.D.S., we all are needed here and nobody is second class, to obtain those degrees, we all have to go thru 4 years of hard work. Well dr. Weismann, i wish you well and hopefully someday you could appreciate my profession as i appreciate yours. - Osteopathic MS-2 from IP address 12.106.89.75 Goto Forum Home |
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