The DOs: Osteopathic Medicine in America
Norman Gevitz | 2004-03-09 00:00:00 | The Johns Hopkins University Press | 264 | Health Policy
Overcoming suspicion, ridicule, and outright opposition from the American Medical Association, the osteopathic medical profession today serves the health needs of more than thirty million Americans. The DOs chronicles the development of this controversial medical movement from the nineteenth century to the present. Historian Norman Gevitz describes the philosophy and practice of osteopathy, as well as its impact on medical care. From the theories underlying the use of spinal manipulation developed by osteopathy's founder, Andrew Taylor Still, Gevitz traces the movement's early success, despite attacks from the orthodox medical community, and details the internal struggles to broaden osteopathy's scope to include the full range of pharmaceuticals and surgery. He also recounts the efforts of osteopathic colleges to achieve parity with institutions granting M.D. degrees and looks at the continuing effort by osteopathic physicians and surgeons to achieve greater recognition and visibility.
In print continuously since 1982, The DOs has now been thoroughly updated and expanded to include two new chapters addressing recent and current challenges and to bring the history of the profession up to the beginning of the new millennium.
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An excellent, well written and easy to read book. Obviously well researched and explains a lot about the way the profession is today and why it is this way. My only complaint is that I wish there was more!!! A lot has happened to the D.O.'s since I graduated from Kirksville in 1976, and I think this is a new area to explore. We are finally pretty well accepted and treated as true medical colleagues in most places, so the equality and parity so long sought have been achieved, yet there is a resurgence of "separateness" which I see. It would interesting to explore that.
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Simply should be on every medical student's (osteopathic and allopathic) book shelf. Any osteopathic medical student or physician would be remiss if they did not read this book.
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I read this book within a week...I never read books that fast. Gevitz's writing style is highly accessible. There were a few chapters or sections where I started to glaze over only because the author explores the minute details of legislative and organizational changes within the American Osteopathic Association, the American Medical Association and other organizations that probably could've been summarized. But this doesn't really detract much from the overall strength and clarity that this book offers; along with an objective look at the history of osteopathic medicine.
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This book paints a picture on the birth and growth of osteopathic medicine in the United States. It illustrates the successes, disappointments, and the many trials that osteopathic medicine has endured since its inception. Additionally, it gives the reader an insight into the influence of the American Medical Association and M.D.'s in general. I think that this is a must read for future M.D.'s and D.O.'s alike because it provides a tremendously well written description of these physicians.
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best information. excellent prep for writing application essays or interviews. gives a good history. great for figuring out how to describe DOs to friends/family.
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