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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Mar 2018

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Edzard Ernst

      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 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      Edzard Ernst @EdzardErnst
      Larry Nassar - doctor of osteopathy ("intravaginal manipulations are an approved osteopathic treatment") http://edzardernst.com/2018/01/larry-nassar-doctor-of-osteopathy-intravaginal-manipulations-are-an-approved-osteopathic-treatment/ … via @edzardernst
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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Mar 2018

      Some of the finest physicians I've worked with have been DOs. The finest intensivist I ever knew was a DO. He trained me as a resident. Pat LoRusso, a former colleague of mine at my cancer center, is a DO. 2/http://blog.aacr.org/propelling-innovative-therapeutics-help-cancer-patients …

      9:04 AM - 3 Mar 2018
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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Mar 2018

          Unfortunately, @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/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Mar 2018

          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/

          2 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Mar 2018

          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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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Mar 2018

          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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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Mar 2018

          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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        7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Mar 2018

          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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        8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Mar 2018

          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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        9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Mar 2018

          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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        10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 3 Mar 2018

          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. 11/11

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        2. Blocked Macerator‏ @UKHomeopathyReg 3 Mar 2018
          Replying to @gorskon

          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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        3. Blocked Macerator‏ @UKHomeopathyReg 3 Mar 2018
          Replying to @UKHomeopathyReg @gorskon

          Likewise, US bods don't get that European osteopathy did not change and is pretty much total quackery.

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