Robert,
In the old days, osteopaths were more into the herbal medicines and manipulation, somewhat like a chiropracter. It was kind of a cross between the two. In recent years, there has been a trend toward more traditional medicine by the osteopaths. When I was at Johns Hopkins Hospital during training aboput 20 years ago, there was an osteopathic physician appointed as the Associate Medical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine. Given that Hopkins was a institution founded on tradition and a major center of medical research and academic medicine, this was a groundbreaking change.
Since then I have worked with many D.O.'s or osteopaths in Emergency Medicine and in general they are very well-trained. I have come to respect good D.O.'s as much as any of the M.D.'s I have worked with, some even more. I have even consulted some of my D.O. colleagues to use manipulation to help break severe muscle spasms and muscle-tension headaches when I could not get a patient comfortable with muscle relaxants and pain medications.
B.T.W., how did the other procedure go ...?
Get your ass to the Doctor buddy boy! We have too many "Condolences" thread around here as it is! Last 10 days? 3 of my buddies have bit the dust; all between 35-37 years old. Not from colon cancer but still- life is short; don't make yours shorter for some thing so preventable!
