[Magdalen] Drug research.

[Molly Wolf]

What's a DO?

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Aug 29, 2016, at 9:50 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We had a GP we both liked very much. He retired recently and we have a new
> GP. She is a DO. We've been very impressed with her. She had plugged my
> data into a computer program that gave general risk factors, and we decided
> to make a modification of my medication.
> 
> The designation had me a bit concerned initially, but so far, so good!  It
> is not easy finding a participating provider around here, so we feel we won
> the lottery.
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> 
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> In a message dated 8/29/2016 12:04:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> polycarpa3 at ckt.net writes:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> David S. - Who would like to have slept through some work  days.
>>