Heaven forbid medical practice evolve! Yes, things have changed since A.T. Still’s day and thank heavens! Moreover thank goodness Allopathic medicine changed too (bleeding patients and use of heavy metals… not so good). Yes, DOs and MDs practice very similarly because experience and research has shown what works best.

DOs that argue that there is no difference forgot what they learned, or chose to ignore what they learned. Majority of DOs don’t practice their OMT skills, but those that use them will testify of the benefit that it can provide.

My only issue with the using the different acronym of “DO” is that it can confuse people, but that really isn’t much of an issue.

One of the author’s points is that osteopathic physicians was founded on a different approach (which became OMM) but since that time, osteopathic education and practice has converged or become much more like allopathic and osteopathic doctors both insist and advertise that they are no different or not much different than MDs and can do the same thing as MDs. If this is the case, then why the different appellation (“DO”)? Also, of osteopathic doctors are the same as MDs, then are they really more holistic than MDs?