The Appeal of Osteopathic Medicine with Hollis King, DO; Michael Kurisu, DO; and Paul J. Mills

(Visit: www.uctv.tv) Hollis King and Michael Kurisu, both osteopathic physicians (DO's) at UC San Diego, describe how osteopathy is a hands-on medical treatment that focuses on the structure and function of the whole body, not just symptoms of disease or pain. As they explain to host Paul J. Mills, doctors of osteopathy learn the same curriculum as traditional medical students, but they approach their patients with a more integrative philosophy of healthcare. Series: "The UC Wellbeing Channel " [9/2017] [Show ID: 32568]

[@Colt-ii4qn]

I’ve known a lot of people that are capable of getting the highest grades, you wouldn’t want some of them to be your doctor. More to it than that 😐

[@bruceylee8670]

I understand that those who are DOs must feel like it's an uphill battle post degree. And I'll say that some DO primary care physicians are top rate. Some, I think have better people skills and are great for common conditions.
However, for very specialized fields, as a patient I'm more comfortable with someone who has very scientific aptitude. When I see the average DO stats and see that DO schools are basically safeties if you can't get into MD, I'm less comfortable. That's not to say that someone who's a DO in a competitive specialty is weaker, they probably had to prove themselves after and they've earned it. But the latest stats that came out had average MCAT matriculants for DO at like 501 vs. 513 for MD?
I'm gonna get a lot of downvotes for this, but that's a huge discrepancy. Unless the DO schools raise their standards after a merger, I just don't see how this would be fair to MDs.

[@kameronwells7105]

I understand your point, but that's assuming that MCAT scores are correlated with the quality and competency of a physician which they are not. In fact, many students who score great on the MCAT go on to have mediocre STEP 1 scores and vice versa. It is for this reason that DO's appear to have lower standards because of the negative bias that academic metrics like MCAT scores create. Me personally, i'd rather have a doctor who scored below average on the MCAT (which doesn't affect the medical specialty of choice) and have an amazing STEP 1 score (which very much does affect the specialty of choice). In other words, to get into the specialized fields you were referring to above in the first place, a DO must have already demonstrated that they have scientific aptitude prior to even getting matched during residency. The fact that you would think otherwise, i think, is very superficial of you to say that and is the very reason there is bias against DO's in the first place; and I'm an accepted MD myself.

[@jaeyou4035]

@@kameronwells7105 Do not bother posting comments on Brucey Lee's comment. He/she is a closet anti-DO person; Brucey Lee would say that he/she understands that DOs are qualified to be physicians, but then his/her latter argument would be like DOs are not that qualified to practice medicine by bringing up the test score discrepancies btw DOs and MDs. You would find his/her similar comments on most of DO vs. MD videos on UA-cam. it is clear to me that Brucey Lee does not realize that there is more art than science being a clinician in the real world of medicine.

[@l.sophia2803]

@@jaeyou4035 yes, it’s a personality that has been profiled by many scientists, this fellows viewpoint. Professor C Graves identified them as structural and rules based. They’re in their own world that they are convinced is ‘correct’. Therefore there’s no room for sharing perspective as they will only be able to hear their own thoughts on the perception of the experience. It’s brain function actually..

[@Nanajsiuz]

You have to be an idiot to think that a DO and an MD that trained in the same residency program and completed the same fellowships are somehow different in their competency based on the degree alone.