What it has come down to is this: modern medicine and big pharma has turned physicians (not including surgeons) into glorified gatekeepers of prescription medication.

There will be a lot of people ranting about how OMT is pseudoscience. The reality is this: some of it is useful and some if it is not. There's a lot of overlap between OMT and physical therapy techniques and if even MDs will recommend patients to see a physical therapist (say after a surgery) then surely you can't just dismiss all of OMT as pseudoscience on the basis that some of it is.

I've developed my own interpretation on what it means according to D.O. schools that osteopaths have a more holistic approach to medicine. What I think they mean is that they haven't limited the scope of medicine to two basics forms of treatment: drugs and surgery. From this perspective, I actually appreciate the opportunity to learn OMT in the future.

It really doesn't take much to realize how much the world of medicine has been blindsided by advancements in drug treatments. But if you take it back to a question of ethics, its really tough to say whether its a whole lot better that patient A with disease B has to take drug C with side effects D his whole life and still be limited in many aspects by disease B. Oh well its great that this drug could add 10 years to someone's life, but if they have to live those years in turmoil have we really found a solution to the problem.

No, we haven't, but big pharma profits off this. And if they're the ones developing the treatments what motivations do they have to find something better if it makes them less money in the long run? And if the doctors are busy seeing patients whose going to seek and develop the new treatments instead?

All I see are a bunch of people putting MDs on a pedestal and pointing fingers at DOs. Just because there is some things wrong with OMT that does not mean there isn't anything wrong with over-reliance on pharmaceutical companies to come up with a real solution to prominent and problematic diseases (oh and of course shouting "its evidence-based" back at any show of criticism.