It’s worth noting that the president’s doctor is an osteopath, a form of pseudoscience that medical bodies in eg Canada do not recognize as legitimate medical profession
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Gross old man on Plentyoffish Retweeted David Gorski, MD, PhD
Editor of the blog Pinker citeshttps://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1313133797857259522 …
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David Gorski, MD, PhDVerified account @gorskonYou have no idea what you are talking about, and, sadly, Dr. Barrett, as much as I admire his history and work, is far behind the times on this. In the US, DOs are equivalent to MDs. They do the same postgraduate residencies. They are no more likely to be quacks than MDs. https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1312975755815591936 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Doug is apparently ignorant of the basic fact that here in the US, DOs and MDs are medically and legally equivalent. Indeed, their residency programs are accredited by the same body now.
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I understand such ignorance in Europe and Australia, but I'd have thought that Canadians would be aware that DOs in the US are no more likely to be quacks than MDs are and that they are equivalent.
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I have a lot of problems with the ways that Dr. Sean Conley has handled communicating Trump's condition to the press, including his lying by omission, but that has nothing to do with the fact that he is a DO.
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Personally, I think that the "throw everything at the kitchen sink" approach to Trump's care is either due to his being sicker than is being let on or the "VIP syndrome," in which a VIP dictates more aggressive care than indicated—possibly a combination.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/science-based-medical-lessons-from-president-trumps-case-of-covid-19-thus-far/ …
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