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Monday, April 19, 2010

National Osteopathic Medicine Week is Here

Do you know what a DO is? That’s the question I’d like you to ask people this week. By educating your patients, friends, and neighbors about DOs and osteopathic medicine, you can play an important role in the effort to promote DOs and osteopathic medicine during National Osteopathic Medicine (NOM) Week.

To celebrate NOM Week, which is April 18-24, the AOA and the Illinois Osteopathic Medical Society will be hosting a Mini-Medical School at the Clifford Johnson Elementary School in Warrenville, Ill., on Thursday, April 22. Local DOs and osteopathic medical students from Midwestern University/Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine will be in attendance to teach children about the principles of leading a healthy life. In addition, AOA staff will help in the NOM Week effort by promoting DOs and osteopathic medicine on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile on Tuesday, April 20.

Osteopathic affiliates and colleges of osteopathic medicine are joining in the effort by hosting NOM Week events of their own, from Mini-Medical Schools, to informational booths at hospitals or business meetings, to official city proclamations of NOM Week.

For more ideas on how you can help spread awareness of DOs and osteopathic medicine this week, visit the NOM Week page on DO-Online and the Osteopathic Public Awareness Network, which provides resources to individuals and affiliates within the osteopathic family interested in helping to promote our great profession year-round.

Larry

Posted by lwicklessdo at 09:40:00. Filed under: Advocacy

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My definition of a DO when explaining osteopathy:

"DO = a type of MD that takes a more holistic view of the patient and, unlike other MDs, is extensively trained to use his or her hands to diagnose somatic dysfunctions in patients and to treat patients using OMT. Also, unlike other MDs, DO physicians are represented by the AOA instead of the AMA."

Isn't this a much easier explanation than repeatedly using complicated terms like "allopathic vs. osteopathic" which are far too cerebral for ordinary people to fully comprehend?

-C. Zotto

Posted by dr mddo at Thursday, April 22, 2010 23:25:04

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