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Those curious, as I was, about what 'allopathic' and 'osteopathic' medicine are may benefit from this article: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MD

Those curious, as I was, about what 'allopathic' and 'osteopathic' medicine are may benefit from this article: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MD_and_DO_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MD_and_DO_in_the... My takeaway is that they are essentially the same today, but there was a much larger difference decades ago, centering around the patient as a focus of medicine vs the treatment of illnesses. Corrections and clarifications welcome.

classichasclass 4y ago
That's basically correct to a first approximation. Osteopathic schools do have some additional training in spinal manipulation as the article says but the curricula are now substantially identical otherwise and in the vast majority of states both have the same scope of practice. Relatively few DOs do spinal work anymore (none of the ones I know do, in fact), and even those that still offer it limit it to pain syndromes; compare with quack chiropracty. Some of us were MDs and some were DOs in residency and we were instructed and treated identically by our attendings.