Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 352 From a small HBCU (historically black college and university) to emergency medicine to organizing conferences, Dr. Alden Landry joins me to talk about…

M.D.s practice allopathic medicine, the classical form of medicine, focused on the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases.   D.O.s practice osteopathic medicine which is centered around a more holistic view of medicine in which the focus is on seeing the patient as a "whole person" to reach a diagnosis, rather than treating the symptoms alone.  The belief is that all parts of the body work together and influence each other.  Osteopathic medicine also places emphasis on the prevention of disease.  In medical school, there is specific training on osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), a hands-on approach to diagnosis and treatment as well as disease prevention.   There are approximately 800,000 practicing physicians in the United States today; roughly 50,000 of whom are D.O.s, while M.D.s make up the remaining 750,000.  D.O.s therefore make up less than 10% of practicing physicians in the USA today.