the 100% directionless thread

JPINFV said:
So in my class's Facebook group, there's a few people looking for more information of homeopathy (one of the campus clubs has them come in and give a lunch lecture every year). I so want to respond that the less they know, the more powerful it is. You know, the power of dilution and all.
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Out of curiosity...
Have you ever witnessed someone mistake Osteopathy for Homeopathy?

Might be awkward when someone finds out that your a DO and thinks your some kind of alternative medicine quack. :wacko:
 
No, but unfortunately there are plenty of quack DOs out there when it comes to OMM.
 
JPINFV said:
No, but unfortunately there are plenty of quack DOs out there when it comes to OMM.
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Then what separates a DO who exclusively practices OMM from a DC? (besides the unlimited license to practice medicine)

I've always wondered, if someone wants to practice OMM exclusively, then why did they become a DO instead of a DC?

Of course there may be a fundamental difference between a Chiropractic and OMM that I am unaware of.
 
Chris07 said:
Then what separates a DO who exclusively practices OMM from a DC? (besides the unlimited license to practice medicine)

I've always wondered, if someone wants to practice OMM exclusively, then why did they become a DO instead of a DC?

Of course there may be a fundamental difference between a Chiropractic and OMM that I am unaware of.
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I'm pretty sure a DC is not a physician (a chiropractor.)

Go ask the pupils of pre-osteo on SDN. :unsure:
 
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Chris07 said:
Then what separates a DO who exclusively practices OMM from a DC? (besides the unlimited license to practice medicine)

I've always wondered, if someone wants to practice OMM exclusively, then why did they become a DO instead of a DC?

Of course there may be a fundamental difference between a Chiropractic and OMM that I am unaware of.
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Arguably the philosophy underlying the dysfunction. Chiropractic philosophy is that the misalignment of the spine itself results in dysfunction whereas osteopathy is the misalignment puts pressure on the nerves, which is the result of the dysfunction ("somatic dysfunction"). Outside the US and Canada, osteopaths (in contrast to US osteopathic physicians) only practice manipulative medicine, and not general medicine.
 
JPINFV said:
Arguably the philosophy underlying the dysfunction. Chiropractic philosophy is that the misalignment of the spine itself results in dysfunction whereas osteopathy is the misalignment puts pressure on the nerves, which is the result of the dysfunction ("somatic dysfunction"). Outside the US and Canada, osteopaths (in contrast to US osteopathic physicians) only practice manipulative medicine, and not general medicine.
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I find I like DOs better than DRs. The DOs I've seen took a whole-body view to health, and look at how one thing affects this which affects that. The DRs I've seen only seemed to be pill pushers. "Oh, you're having this problem, here's a pill for that. Oh, that pill is giving you that side effect, here's another pill to counter-act it."

I see a DO, and I'm on one prescription pill a day, and two OTC pills on days I have to go work. When I saw a DR, I was on several pills a day, and some of those pills were to counteract the side effects of another pill. Another reason I like the DO I see now is that she actually listened to me when I reported symptoms that had been bothering me since I was a teenager, and figured out that they were the common red-flags for a fairly common disorder, while the DR I had seen for years as a teen and young adult kept going along the lines of "I can't figure out what's wrong with you, it must be stress, here's a pill"
 
Holy crap, Matt Damon died......
 
At the end of "The Departed".
 
In the movie I was watching :rofl:
 
Read the follow up comment!
 
CritterNurse said:
I find I like DOs better than DRs. The DOs I've seen took a whole-body view to health, and look at how one thing affects this which affects that. The DRs I've seen only seemed to be pill pushers. "Oh, you're having this problem, here's a pill for that. Oh, that pill is giving you that side effect, here's another pill to counter-act it."

I see a DO, and I'm on one prescription pill a day, and two OTC pills on days I have to go work. When I saw a DR, I was on several pills a day, and some of those pills were to counteract the side effects of another pill. Another reason I like the DO I see now is that she actually listened to me when I reported symptoms that had been bothering me since I was a teenager, and figured out that they were the common red-flags for a fairly common disorder, while the DR I had seen for years as a teen and young adult kept going along the lines of "I can't figure out what's wrong with you, it must be stress, here's a pill"
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A DO is a doctor of osteopathic medicine.
Are you mistaking DR for MD?
 
I was going to say...Twitter was not confirming your statement...<_<

Twitter is the ultimate source for confirming big natural disasters and celebrity deaths...

https://twitter.com/search

The hash tags on that page tell what's going on in the world. ^_^
 
It's a nice gag I like to pull off from time to time.
 
Chris07 said:
I was going to say...Twitter was not confirming your statement...<_<

Twitter is the ultimate source for confirming big natural disasters and celebrity deaths...

https://twitter.com/search

The hash tags on that page tell what's going on in the world. ^_^
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Weekly World news is better :rofl:
 
Is that magazine still around?
 
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