{"id":10932,"date":"2020-10-11T16:46:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T16:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=10932"},"modified":"2020-10-12T04:38:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T04:38:32","slug":"osteopathic-medical-profession-fights-back-after-cnn-msnbc-mischaracterize-dos-the-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2020\/10\/11\/osteopathic-medical-profession-fights-back-after-cnn-msnbc-mischaracterize-dos-the-do\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Osteopathic medical profession fights back after CNN, MSNBC mischaracterize DOs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media morons did it again, falsely claiming that Trump&#8217;s Doctor of Osteopathic medicine is not a real doctor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Doctors of osteopathic medicine (DOs) are not \u201costeopaths.\u201d DOs are fully licensed physicians equivalent to MDs, and can practice in ANY specialty including infectious disease. Many are treating COVID-19. You as the media are gatekeepers. STOP spreading misinformation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thedo.osteopathic.org\/2020\/10\/osteopathic-medical-profession-fights-back-after-major-news-outlets-mischaracterize-dos\/\">Osteopathic medical profession fights back after CNN, MSNBC mischaracterize DOs &#8211; The DO<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A DO is very much a real doctor. My current GP is a DO and he&#8217;s great. I&#8217;ve had minor outpatient surgery done, twice, by a DO in the past. When I was dealing with misdiagnosed food allergies (ALL of the MDs had misdiagnosed a common yet life threatening food allergy), the allergist I eventually saw was a DO. (I was the first one to suggest, based on a peer reviewed literature review and detailed note taking that I was having an allergic reaction, which was then confirmed by the allergist. Four separate MDs had been wrong.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The media attempts to spin it as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/coronavirus\/2020\/10\/president-trumps-doctor-is-an-osteopath-not-an-md-what-does-that-mean.html\">generic societal confusion about MDs and DOs<\/a>, rather than acknowledge that the media is filled with incompetent word smiths having little to no qualifications to do what they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media morons did it again, falsely claiming that Trump&#8217;s Doctor of Osteopathic medicine is not a real doctor. A DO is very much a &#8220;real doctor&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lies","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}