On 12/11/2012 10:29 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:10:43 -0500, "Don Phillipson"
wrote:




I attended a webinar presented by Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, perhaps
the country's leading expert on the dangers of vaccinations.

This person is qualified as an osteopath (bonesetter) i.e. neither
a GP physician nor an epidemiologist.

The doctor may be a nutcase, but Osteopathic doctors are far more
than bone setters. Could you be thinking of orthopedic?

My wife's cardiologist is a DO. We trust him with her life and he
has done good so far.


Let's get the facts straight here. I happen to be a board certified
Orthopedic Surgeon. I have an M.D. and spent 5 1/2 years in post
medical school internship and residency training. I could not even sit
for the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery's certification exam until
I had several years of documented clinical experience, including
documentation of operations performed, etc. My formal education trained
me to be substantially more than just a "bone setter" and in my clinical
practice I diagnosed and treated a wide spectrum of congenital,
infectious, malignant, inflammatory, and degenerative diseases of the
musculoskeletal system in addition to traumatic injuries. My training
taught me to recognize when some of my patient's complained of symptoms
that were caused by non-orthopedic problems and required treatment by
other specialists for effective resolution. I don't know where anyone
gets the idea that orthopedic doctors are merely "bone setters". As for
nutcases, I've known many nut cases and there is no correlation between
academic credentials and wrong-headed thinking.

As far as what you say about osteopaths, I strongly and completely
support your comments with one caveat: prior to about 25-30 years ago,
the formal training of osteopaths was substantially inferior to that of
M.D.s. That has not been the case for many decades. Most osteopaths
don't even specialize in the diseases of the musculo-skeletal system and
the one's I've known are fully equivalent to M.D.s in every respect.