physician nonmaleficence + whole person care
Andrew Still, MD, DO
How did this young doctor think outside the box and combine his building skills to devise methods for relieving pain not requiring harmful drugs and surgeries?
Are you going to read any of his books?
(They're available... I have.)
Will you consistently use level 1 or 2 evidence to determine when to recommend OMT and when to recommend other therapies?
Will you refer patients who have a nail for treatments other than by your hammer when the evidence shows your hammer doesn't have the best quality of life / disease free survival / number needed to treat/harm ratio?
If you belong to an organization that is founded by one or more relevant people, then you should know what that person/people believed.
Luckily for osteopaths, AT Still's writings are available. Either check them out from the library or at this link.
The actual Hippocrates has no confirmable writings.
In either case, textbooks of yesterday contain a different set of misinformation than those of today.
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