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thereby making sure that there's always been a shortage of doctors [2] [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report I'm sorry but I prefer the people operating one me are part of a well regulated profession guided by scientific research. The Osteopathic profession was the only group that was organized enough to survive the Medical Guild's purge of non-Rockefeller-approved approaches to medicine. Yeah because Blood Letting, Leaches, Heroin, Electro-Shock, and Drinking Mercury were _so good_ for your health. Turn of the last century Osteopathy is the stuff of Nightmares. Today D.O.s are more likely to take up Primary Care, where doctors take time to get to know their patients and figure out what's actually causing their complaints Modern D.O.'s aren't _exactly_ descended from Osteopathic of the 1870-1900's. Really in philosophy only. The only real relation is that the "Philosphy" of Osteopathy is the body will try to heal itself, and medicine should compliment this... Not be the only process by-which the body can. Modern D.O.'s following the training and principles laid out in the Flexner Report. Their decisions are still based on research. There are _non-approved_ Osteopathic """Doctors""", but we commonly refer to them as faith healers.