Osteopathic Medicine

I opened a solo practice in a rural setting in northeast Oklahoma. I am the only provider in my clinic, and it is a journey that has been very rewarding.

Since I was a little girl, I wanted to be a pediatrician. My father was a carpenter, and my mother worked for the state. No one in my family has ever been to medical school, so I was in uncharted waters.

ORLANDO — During her talk at the Osteopathic Medical Education Conference, Anne C. Jones, DO, MPH, highlighted recent evidence supporting the integration of behavioral health in primary care.

For patients with chronic pain, the right treatment could help prevent suicide, according to Kathleen M. Farrell, DO.

The Osteopathic Medical Education conference, or OMED, will kick off in Orlando this week.

Medicare patients who were treated by osteopathic and allopathic hospitalists received similar quality and costs of care, according to the results of research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

During a September 2021 interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, comedian Hasan Minhaj referred to doctors of osteopathic medicine, or DOs, as “off-brand doctors” compared with their MD counterparts.

Published results showed standard osteopathic manipulative treatment for nonspecific subacute or chronic low back pain had a small effect on low back pain-specific activity limitations compared with sham osteopathic manipulative treatment.

Peter F. Bidey, DO, MSEd, FACOFP, is the Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Osteopathic Medicine Program as well as an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is also chair of a National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners Committee and serves on the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians Board of Governors.

Thomas L. Ely, DO, FACOFP, FAAFP, the newly sworn-in president of the American Osteopathic Association, said he wants to increase the reach of the osteopathic community, improve vaccination rates and enhance the well-being of the association’s members.