You mentioned headaches and abdominal pain multiple times in this video.. I have my first appointment with a DO tomorrow and my 2 main issues is headaches and GI issues so it felt good to know that I am making the right decision.. Thank you..
Every DO I've ever been to has been excellent. Superior to the MDs I've been to. I'm glad DOs are finally getting the recognition they deserve and I'm looking forward to seeing further growth in this field. Ignore the rude comments. People are so ignorant about medical school and training and what really matters. I know surgeons who are DOs. My obgyn who delivered my children was a DO.
Let me say this as a 64-year-old has been to many doctors I much rather go to the DO because they are more approachable. As far as having the higher grades that could be overrated because there’s a lot of people that are capable of getting high grades but you wouldn’t want them to be your doctor . Take it from an older guy that’s dealt with both, DO‘s are not subpar compared to MDs 😐
So 2 years later, and hopefully, you've graduated, or are about to graduate. The ortho who put me back together after a gnarly motorcycle accident in '89 was a DO. I didn't give a rat's ass. All I knew was that he and his team spent 7 and a half hours putting my wrists back together and performing an open reduction on my right femur. Other than subluxation in both my wrist, and some inflexibility in the same, I really have nothing I can't do, other than pushups on my palms. The one thing he did that impressed me greatly in the aftercare was to agree with my desire to have acupuncture done on my left leg. It was functionally immobile, so I went to the school of Chinese medicine as a subject, and if I'm lying, I'm dying; after ONE treatment, I had regained about 30% of my mobility in the knee, and the hip. After the 2nd treatment, I was near pre-accident levels as far as flexibility. Disclaimer: acupuncture has not always had such a dramatic affect. My point is this: I have a feeling that my orthopedist MAY have not been as open to alternative medicine as an MD. There's a lot more open-mindedness today, but 30+ years ago, not so much.
as an advanced pre-hospital provider. I wholly agree on the whole rather than the disease. I believe that DO are far more intuitive than the MD philosophy, sort of more like Oriental medicine. I whole-heartedly agree with you! I''ll go to a DO before any MD physician! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for your service to patients & thank you for your support for DOs! 😄we take the same classes as MDs along with our OMM classes, we are both equally qualified but I believe the tenets of osteopathic medicine - that focus on the self healing body, biomechanics, & focusing on the body, mind & spirit - that are emphasized throughout our education & training makes a difference! :)
Well, that's not true. People only apply for DO schools when they failed to get into MD schools due to low GPA and MCAT. No they are not better than MDs.
@@weilin2418 This is completely false. The ER doctors who take care of me was a DO. I know surgeons who are DOs. Why would any hospital hire a DO if they aren't top notch. You have NO clue what you're talking about. You are just ignorant.
4th year DO student here. We take double the board of MD's. We take the USMLE, same as MD's AND we take the COMLEX, a DO specific exam. Both are ~10 hour exams. A DO is a MD that specialized in being O-vertested, O-verworked, and O-vercompensate for Program Director's prejudice.
@@racheldoesbalance He was a family physician. He was the director of the family practice residency at Santa Monica UCLA before he retired. My son is a high school senior and just applied for a combined BA/MD program at UNM.
Great video and great information! Just an advice, it would be very helpful if you could speak a little slower. Specially for those like me who English is their second language 😊. You explained DO very well and I would love to become a Dermatologist DO.
I just graduated with my BS in Exercise Science with a minor in Psychology. I initially went in thinking I wanted to enroll in PT school afterwards, but shortly after getting into undergraduate school I changed my mind. Not that it's not a good or respectable field, but a major concern for me is being in any field where I feel limited to one specialty. So much so, that while in school I even began taking certification classes to build upon. Unfortunately for me, while things like psychology and nutrition play a role in physical fitness, for example, if I were to pursue a career in personal training it would be outside my scope of practice to give real nutritional advice or mental health counseling. But I want to. I want to do it allll. My second option, which may actually be a good starting option, was to complete some form of life/health coaching certifying course or some other holistic practitioner course while I decide. Anyways. All of this to ask - would considering a degree in Osteopathic Medicine be wise for someone who wants to be able to partake in all of these fields, because I am highly interested in them all and do not want to feel limited or that I gave up one for the other. It sounds like 'yes' from all of the research I've done, but I figured it would be best to ask someone who is/has been there already. Thank you to anyone and everyone!
@Sameer thanks for your response, it actually helped quite a bit. That whole second paragraph actually seemed rather unappealing, but I guess it's part of the journey to greater pay off. What's ironic is that I don't actually want to work in medicine; I want to work in the health field over medical, with more of an emphasis in holistic approaches. I know DOs are still technically medical, but I felt it may have been the best route to allow me to do a bit of everything that I wanted to. I may have misunderstood, as I suppose a general DO still follows, more or less, the same practices as a general practitioner (MD)
@@brandonmarquez1834 I've seen it listed as one of the many examples of holistic practices, but I had no idea they were able to do so much! I'll have to give them a more thorough look. Thank you for the information! And congratulations to you on your graduation! It's interesting to see how similar paths can branch out for similar reasons yet go in different directions.
hi courtney! so sorry for my late response .... I've been off youtube for a bit but planning on getting back to posting again as i've just started fourth year. your passion and excitement is inspiring and i absolutely love it; please keep that! congratulations on finishing your degree in exercise science + the psychology minor. I think you definitely align with the priniciples of osteopathic medicine, but i agree with the above commenter that i could see you in other career fields as well, because there is not just one path to practice/do what you say you want to do (which is great, by the way!). i will say, if you choose DO/MD, you can make your practice whatever you want (practice with the added nutrition emphasis, obesity/lifestyle medicine, holistic health center family medicine practice) but you will go through a lot of training and you will have to learn all of that medicine. so i say if you're not passionate about that part, i could see you being very happy not practicing medicine as an MD/DO, but finding a different avenue to do what you want. The chiropractic route could be one as the above person said, you could go to PT school and have an extra emphasis in nutrition and overall health and wellness, you could take some health certification courses (although these do not carry as much weight as doctorate degrees of course because the training and education is much less). i think you have a very bright future and if you have extra questions about DO, let me know bc that is my area of specialty + i love talking about it :)
So much earlier to get admitted into a DO school an a MD school. The end point is both degrees are doctor treating patients and care for patients equally.
Hi Rachel, I loved your video! Do you have an email I could reach out to you with? I have applied to DO school this cycle and have my two interviews scheduled this week, if possible I would love to ask you some questions! Thank you in advance! 😊
Hello Rachel Please I have start my Pre med in the college Brooklyn I want to go to D.O School can you be my coach am from Ghana but currently in Brooklyn
I'm sorry, I'm not understanding your comment. what do you mean by that? it wasn't my intention to come off that way but i'd love to hear about how it sounded so i can understand better how things might sound to patients.
Not true and it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, they are all doctors. I know surgeons who are DOs. My obgyn who delivered my babies was a DO. All doctors. Same education and training as MDs. All provided excellent care. The ER doctor who take care of my daughter last month was a DO. Your comment is stupid and ignorant. You probably couldn't even get into DO school much less Med school. You can't even write a lucid sentence.
@@momto2 to be honest, got to agree with @Sr68720. Most people who go into DO are ones who can't make it into MD. Also, as a medical student in an MD program, most of the reasons that DO students say they went to DO programs like it being more focused on the patient, holistic, etc is pretty much nonsense. MD programs obviously have the same tenant of treating patients holistically. I also know some DO physicians who rarely use OMT, and they even say that the evidence behind it is questionable. You can even do a literature search about it. However, if it works for a patient, then great, but it's really not all that it's cracked up to be. Lastly, are the students that applied to DO that you know competitive in their metrics? She even admitted to having a subpar MCAT of 500, which would still get you secondaries and maybe from some interviews from lower tier MD programs. If you want to do something like internal medicine or primary, DO does not matter. However, if you want to specialize then going to an MD school, which usually have more resources/funding/committed clinical sites, is the better option if you can get in.
@@momto2 some do like the DO philosophy of being more "holistic" but that's more of a coping tagline than anything since MDs also do a holistic approach (in an MD program and have lots of friends in several other MD programs around the country with same experience), most do so bc they know their odds in getting into MD is slim to none based on their metrics, experiences, etc
@@pseudoname5936 You can think what you want. At the end of the day, MDs and DOs do the same residencies and have identical privileges at a hospital. I'm a RN who has worked for and has been treated by DOs. My daughter is about to graduate from DO med school and will be doing a specialty residency with three MDs at one of the best medical centers/teaching hospitals in the country.
Not true and it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, they are all doctors. I know surgeons who are DOs. My obgyn who delivered my babies was a DO. All doctors. Same education and training as MDs. All provided excellent care. Your comment is stupid and ignorant.
As someone interested in DO, this was such a great comprehensive explanation, thank you so much!
I’m so glad you found it helpful!! 😊😊
Very comprehensive video. I'm very early in my medicine journey but DO schools may be at the top of my list now!
wow, that's great to hear. thank you!! best of luck!!
You mentioned headaches and abdominal pain multiple times in this video.. I have my first appointment with a DO tomorrow and my 2 main issues is headaches and GI issues so it felt good to know that I am making the right decision.. Thank you..
You gave the best and most comprehensive information about osteopathic medicine.
Every DO I've ever been to has been excellent. Superior to the MDs I've been to. I'm glad DOs are finally getting the recognition they deserve and I'm looking forward to seeing further growth in this field. Ignore the rude comments. People are so ignorant about medical school and training and what really matters. I know surgeons who are DOs. My obgyn who delivered my children was a DO.
Let me say this as a 64-year-old has been to many doctors I much rather go to the DO because they are more approachable. As far as having the higher grades that could be overrated because there’s a lot of people that are capable of getting high grades but you wouldn’t want them to be your doctor . Take it from an older guy that’s dealt with both, DO‘s are not subpar compared to MDs 😐
thank you for your support for DOs! :)
So 2 years later, and hopefully, you've graduated, or are about to graduate.
The ortho who put me back together after a gnarly motorcycle accident in '89 was a DO. I didn't give a rat's ass. All I knew was that he and his team spent 7 and a half hours putting my wrists back together and performing an open reduction on my right femur. Other than subluxation in both my wrist, and some inflexibility in the same, I really have nothing I can't do, other than pushups on my palms.
The one thing he did that impressed me greatly in the aftercare was to agree with my desire to have acupuncture done on my left leg. It was functionally immobile, so I went to the school of Chinese medicine as a subject, and if I'm lying, I'm dying; after ONE treatment, I had regained about 30% of my mobility in the knee, and the hip. After the 2nd treatment, I was near pre-accident levels as far as flexibility.
Disclaimer: acupuncture has not always had such a dramatic affect.
My point is this: I have a feeling that my orthopedist MAY have not been as open to alternative medicine as an MD. There's a lot more open-mindedness today, but 30+ years ago, not so much.
as an advanced pre-hospital provider. I wholly agree on the whole rather than the disease. I believe that DO are far more intuitive than the MD philosophy, sort of more like Oriental medicine. I whole-heartedly agree with you! I''ll go to a DO before any MD physician! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for your service to patients & thank you for your support for DOs! 😄we take the same classes as MDs along with our OMM classes, we are both equally qualified but I believe the tenets of osteopathic medicine - that focus on the self healing body, biomechanics, & focusing on the body, mind & spirit - that are emphasized throughout our education & training makes a difference! :)
Well, that's not true. People only apply for DO schools when they failed to get into MD schools due to low GPA and MCAT. No they are not better than MDs.
naahhhhhhh@@weilin2418
@@weilin2418 DOs are not better than MDs, but they're equal. They train at the same residencies and have the exact same hospital privileges.
@@weilin2418 This is completely false. The ER doctors who take care of me was a DO. I know surgeons who are DOs. Why would any hospital hire a DO if they aren't top notch. You have NO clue what you're talking about. You are just ignorant.
In love with how passionate you are about the DO path!
Im a Nurse and aiming to become a Physician and the DO is really my top choice
That’s great, your experience as a nurse will help you so much in med school and as a doctor! :)
would like to learn about DOs in surgery, pediatrics, family medicine, and ER
you should! they are in all specialties and can do anything they want!!
4th year DO student here.
We take double the board of MD's. We take the USMLE, same as MD's AND we take the COMLEX, a DO specific exam. Both are ~10 hour exams.
A DO is a MD that specialized in being O-vertested, O-verworked, and O-vercompensate for Program Director's prejudice.
This video was amazing! Thank you so much for the information, it’s so helpful
My dad was a DO. What your specialty I'd ask, "the body and it's contents."
Awesome! What was his specialty? I’m still in my second year of med school but right now I’m interested in internal medicine, GI, & cardiology!
@@racheldoesbalance He was a family physician. He was the director of the family practice residency at Santa Monica UCLA before he retired. My son is a high school senior and just applied for a combined BA/MD program at UNM.
@@kirkfelmar2944 thats amazing! & thats awesome that your son is following in your father's footsteps to become a physician :)
Great video and great information! Just an advice, it would be very helpful if you could speak a little slower. Specially for those like me who English is their second language 😊. You explained DO very well and I would love to become a Dermatologist DO.
thank you so much! :) and thank you for the advice!
that's amazing, excited for you!!
Thank you for sharing! ❤
I just graduated with my BS in Exercise Science with a minor in Psychology. I initially went in thinking I wanted to enroll in PT school afterwards, but shortly after getting into undergraduate school I changed my mind. Not that it's not a good or respectable field, but a major concern for me is being in any field where I feel limited to one specialty. So much so, that while in school I even began taking certification classes to build upon. Unfortunately for me, while things like psychology and nutrition play a role in physical fitness, for example, if I were to pursue a career in personal training it would be outside my scope of practice to give real nutritional advice or mental health counseling. But I want to. I want to do it allll. My second option, which may actually be a good starting option, was to complete some form of life/health coaching certifying course or some other holistic practitioner course while I decide.
Anyways. All of this to ask - would considering a degree in Osteopathic Medicine be wise for someone who wants to be able to partake in all of these fields, because I am highly interested in them all and do not want to feel limited or that I gave up one for the other. It sounds like 'yes' from all of the research I've done, but I figured it would be best to ask someone who is/has been there already.
Thank you to anyone and everyone!
@Sameer thanks for your response, it actually helped quite a bit.
That whole second paragraph actually seemed rather unappealing, but I guess it's part of the journey to greater pay off.
What's ironic is that I don't actually want to work in medicine; I want to work in the health field over medical, with more of an emphasis in holistic approaches.
I know DOs are still technically medical, but I felt it may have been the best route to allow me to do a bit of everything that I wanted to. I may have misunderstood, as I suppose a general DO still follows, more or less, the same practices as a general practitioner (MD)
@@brandonmarquez1834 I've seen it listed as one of the many examples of holistic practices, but I had no idea they were able to do so much! I'll have to give them a more thorough look. Thank you for the information! And congratulations to you on your graduation! It's interesting to see how similar paths can branch out for similar reasons yet go in different directions.
hi courtney! so sorry for my late response .... I've been off youtube for a bit but planning on getting back to posting again as i've just started fourth year.
your passion and excitement is inspiring and i absolutely love it; please keep that! congratulations on finishing your degree in exercise science + the psychology minor. I think you definitely align with the priniciples of osteopathic medicine, but i agree with the above commenter that i could see you in other career fields as well, because there is not just one path to practice/do what you say you want to do (which is great, by the way!). i will say, if you choose DO/MD, you can make your practice whatever you want (practice with the added nutrition emphasis, obesity/lifestyle medicine, holistic health center family medicine practice) but you will go through a lot of training and you will have to learn all of that medicine.
so i say if you're not passionate about that part, i could see you being very happy not practicing medicine as an MD/DO, but finding a different avenue to do what you want. The chiropractic route could be one as the above person said, you could go to PT school and have an extra emphasis in nutrition and overall health and wellness, you could take some health certification courses (although these do not carry as much weight as doctorate degrees of course because the training and education is much less).
i think you have a very bright future and if you have extra questions about DO, let me know bc that is my area of specialty + i love talking about it :)
Wow, thank you so much for this video!
You are so welcome! :)
Hello 👋🏾 what DO school did you go to?
So much earlier to get admitted into a DO school an a MD school. The end point is both degrees are doctor treating patients and care for patients equally.
It's not that much easier.
It’s not as easy as you think
Thanks for your video, do you know any former Social Workers that went to DO school?
I don’t personally but that’s a great background & experience that will help you so much as a doctor!!
what is advanced life support like in DO school?
can you treat elephantiasis since you treat the lymphatic system? How?
Im not sure, but im sure some lymphatic drainage techniques would be helpful for it!
Hi Rachel, I loved your video! Do you have an email I could reach out to you with? I have applied to DO school this cycle and have my two interviews scheduled this week, if possible I would love to ask you some questions! Thank you in advance! 😊
Hello Rachel Please I have start my Pre med in the college Brooklyn I want to go to D.O School can you be my coach am from Ghana but currently in Brooklyn
Yes what are your questions ?
In my area a DO Dr only cares about the patient doing only what they want. And not help with the chronic pain. That the patient is suffering from.
Well done.
thank you! :)
Is mbbbs necessary for it??
No, you don’t need a MBBS to get into med school or HPSP
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Your very smart
Thank you!😸
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As someone with mediocre grades and MCAT scores, DO gave me the opportunity to go to medical school and become a “doctor”.
Which medical school are you at?
@@racheldoesbalance I’m not in medical school. I’m practicing family medicine with the rest of my cohorts.
@@edhcb9359 oh okay, that’s great! :) I’m looking forward to my FM rotations
Why is doctor is quotes? DOs ARE doctors. My surgeon was a DO.
@@ILoveMyPomeranian-p6l Hmmm…better make sure he operates on the right organ then. 😂
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“Saying” exercise, lifestyle, and healthy eating has become accusatory and abuse. “Saying” instead of exploring issues isn’t helpful.
I'm sorry, I'm not understanding your comment. what do you mean by that? it wasn't my intention to come off that way but i'd love to hear about how it sounded so i can understand better how things might sound to patients.
Haha
No frustration
You are delusional
Bs
You choose do because you couldn’t get into md school. Just like 100% of all do’s
Not true and it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, they are all doctors. I know surgeons who are DOs. My obgyn who delivered my babies was a DO. All doctors. Same education and training as MDs. All provided excellent care. The ER doctor who take care of my daughter last month was a DO. Your comment is stupid and ignorant. You probably couldn't even get into DO school much less Med school. You can't even write a lucid sentence.
Im applying DO only… speak for your frustrated self 😂
@@maisapaz6132what’s ur mcat score? That’s what really determines where u can apply
You chose DO because you could not get MD.
Are you a physician? Do you know Rachel? I know many people who just applied DO.
@@momto2 to be honest, got to agree with @Sr68720. Most people who go into DO are ones who can't make it into MD. Also, as a medical student in an MD program, most of the reasons that DO students say they went to DO programs like it being more focused on the patient, holistic, etc is pretty much nonsense. MD programs obviously have the same tenant of treating patients holistically. I also know some DO physicians who rarely use OMT, and they even say that the evidence behind it is questionable. You can even do a literature search about it. However, if it works for a patient, then great, but it's really not all that it's cracked up to be. Lastly, are the students that applied to DO that you know competitive in their metrics? She even admitted to having a subpar MCAT of 500, which would still get you secondaries and maybe from some interviews from lower tier MD programs. If you want to do something like internal medicine or primary, DO does not matter. However, if you want to specialize then going to an MD school, which usually have more resources/funding/committed clinical sites, is the better option if you can get in.
@@momto2 some do like the DO philosophy of being more "holistic" but that's more of a coping tagline than anything since MDs also do a holistic approach (in an MD program and have lots of friends in several other MD programs around the country with same experience), most do so bc they know their odds in getting into MD is slim to none based on their metrics, experiences, etc
@@pseudoname5936 You can think what you want. At the end of the day, MDs and DOs do the same residencies and have identical privileges at a hospital. I'm a RN who has worked for and has been treated by DOs. My daughter is about to graduate from DO med school and will be doing a specialty residency with three MDs at one of the best medical centers/teaching hospitals in the country.
Not true and it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, they are all doctors. I know surgeons who are DOs. My obgyn who delivered my babies was a DO. All doctors. Same education and training as MDs. All provided excellent care. Your comment is stupid and ignorant.