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Allopathic Osteopathic
Allopathic approaches in medicine dominate how healthcare is administered in the United States in today's society. Osteopathy has made some gains in popularity over the decades but it is well established that the majority of today's doctors practice and employ an allopathic approach towards healing their patients. The purpose of this essay is to explore the possible differences in society if allopathic medicine did not develop as the dominant profession but was bifurcated into equal proportions of MDs and DOs.
Salzberg (2010) suggested that medical doctors and DO's are not the same thing and a certain deficiency of training is present in doctors of osteopathy. He wrote " are they equal? Well, not quite. Osteopathy started out as little more than pseudoscience, based on the mistaken idea that manipulations of the skeleton and muscles -- massage, basically -- would cure disease. It was invented by Andrew Still in 1874, who made this and many other claims, none of them supported by science." This bias suggests that something within the allopathic...
Allopathic approaches appear to be failing at a massive level with incredible rates of chronic disease such as cancer and diabetes growing every year. It appears difficult to accept that a more holistic approach that focuses on prevention as opposed to treatment would possibly alleviate these disastrous trends.
Peters et al. (1999) understood that many of these diverging alignments begin in medical school. He wrote " medical education in osteopathic and allopathic schools is different in major ways: mission, curricular emphasis, type of faculty, research orientation, and type of student. Not only is the mission of all osteopathic schools to produce primary care physicians,…
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Prep, V. (2012). How to Decide Between an MD and a DO. Us News and World Report, 23 Aug 2012. Retrieved from http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/medical-school- admissions-doctor/2012/04/23/how-to-decide-between-an-md-and-a-do
Salzberg, S. (2010). Osteopaths Vs. Doctors. Forbes, 27 Oct 2010. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/sciencebiz/2010/10/27/osteopaths-versus-doctors/
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