Sadly, @EdzardErnst is way off-base here. In the US, DOs are the equivalent of MDS. Yes, DOs learn osteopathic manipulation on DO school, but do the same residencies afterwards and go on to practice in a manner indistinguishable from MDs. Few do manipulation. 1/https://twitter.com/edzardernst/status/969955182422437890 …
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@EdzardErnst is buying into an unfortunate narrative I've seen that uses the Larry Nassar case to paint DOs as potential sexual predators based on things they no longer practice, at least not in the US. 3/Show this thread -
There isn't, as far as I've been able to tell, any difference in the propensity of DOs vs. MDs to diddle their patients. The problem is not Nassar's DO. It's his privilege as a physician that let him sexually assault his patients and get away with it for decades. 4/
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Do you think it was only DOs who knew what Nassar was being accused of and did nothing. He was faculty at MSU's College of Medicine, NOT its College of Osteopathic Medicine. He was in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. 5/
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It's damned certain that it was not just Nassar's fellow DOs who ignored or downplayed allegations of sexual abuse against him over two decades. You can be damned sure if was MDs too. 6/
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The problem is not Nassar's DO. It is the culture of medicine that lets predators like Nassar get away with sexually assaulting patients for decades under the guise of treating or examining them. 7/
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And it's not as though MDs are innocent. There are, unfortunately, MDs who are sexual predators like Nassar too. 8/
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Focusing on Nassar's being an osteopathic physician misses the point. In the US, there is no practical or functional difference between MDs and DOs. 9/
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Indeed, most DOs whom I know are a bit embarrassed by the osteopathic manipulation they learned in school and don't use it. 10/
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It saddens me to say it given my level of admiration for him, but
@EdzardErnst screwed up here. His denial at the end that he's "not implying that all osteopaths are criminal perverts" doesn't change that. 11/11Show this thread
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It's a mistake made far too often by Europeans. Osteopathy changed in the US - in the wake of the Flexner report, the DO schools stayed opened when chiropractic, homeopathic, eclectic schools closed.
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Likewise, US bods don't get that European osteopathy did not change and is pretty much total quackery.
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