[Magdalen] Drug research.

[Eleanor Braun]

My uncle was was a DO in Seattle.  The only medical assistance I ever got
from him was his lancing a blister for me.

Then a couple of years ago when I had an emergency appendectomy, I found
out (after the fact) that my surgeon was a DO.  I was very pleased, and we
had a wonderful conversation about the expanding role for them.

Eleanor

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 8/29/2016 12:04:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> polycarpa3 at ckt.net writes:
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> When I  was a child, more than sixty years ago, the doctor to whom my
> parents  would take me was a DO, not an MD.  He
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> Back in the day, there used to be a big difference made between the
> two degrees and their separate approaches.  DO's usually didn't  have
> hospital privileges and they were mostly generalists.  It was my
> impression that they were looked down upon by many MD's.
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> Then California examined the situation and the training and decided
> there was essentially no difference in abilities between DO's and  MD's,
> and made equality between them the law.
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> As goes California, goes the country in matters like this, and soon  it
> was a done deed nationally.  Further, DO's were admitted into  specialty
> training just as MD's, and as a result the DO's are much more  diversified
> now than in the past.
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> I had a good friend and fellow dermatologist when I was in  Frankfurt/M
> (He ran the Military clinic at the Augsburg, Germany Army Hospital).
> He was very well trained.  He suffered, however, from  narcolepsy,
> and would fall asleep at the oddest times.  Driving was obviously  a
> problem.
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> David S. - Who would like to have slept through some work  days.
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