American Osteopathic Board Of Proctology Puns

Anyone who has applied for a osteopathic physicians and surgeons license in California knows how horrific and unprofessional this process is.

I'll give you the taste of just how obnoxious their process is. For some bizarre reason, starting this starting this year, you are not allowed to apply for an unrestricted license until you have completed 36 months of residency. They also have no official grace period that allows you to practice as a trainee while this application is being processed. Perhaps you can see why this was a problem for me, who started a new fellowship in July of this year after finishing residency out-of-state. This was all made even worse by the fact that that the board has lost (just plain lost) application documents of mine not once, not twice, but three times in the last 4 months. I have delivery receipts for all of these documents, and yet the board refuses to acknowledge that they ever received them. I have had to REsend COMLEX scores, diplomas and med school transcripts. I only figured out that I had to resend these documents based on pure guess-work.

This is all because there is no formal way formal way to get in touch with ANY person who works at the osteopathic board. Their main number is a phone tree with dead-ends and voicemail boxes that go to nowhere. I went back and counted, and I have left 23 voicemails over the past 4 months and sent approximately 65 emails to the board. My program director and GME office have both rarely been successful in even making contact.

It is all now come to a head. Because I have no unrestricted license I will not be able to take boards until next year. Again, because of bizarre bureaucratic rules at our boarding organization. To add another injury, my GME office Has notified me that I am currently suspended for 2 weeks. If I do not have a license at the end of those 2 weeks, I will be terminated. Maybe I should just quit anyways.

TL;DR don't do a fellowship in California as a DO.

Edit: Named state. Unsurprisingly California.

Other recently graduated California DOs, have you guys gotten your full license yet? This is nuts. I can't work and I was supposed to start already.

For unfamiliar people, the OMBC told me and my co-residents "since we have your training license info, should only be a few days to license you". Bullshit. Three weeks out and nothing.

Oh and has anybody tried to contact them? Try. I dare you. Use literally any extension on their phone system and you will get a prerecorded voice message at any time of day and any time of week. They are virtually un-contactable.

Meanwhile, my MD co-resident got her license in fucking May.

Background: My only interview is to BCOM. Interviewing mid-October. Submitted 14 DO secondaries by mid-August, most of them in July. I have 3 DO secondaries left to write but have pushed off till now. 2 rejections and 1 pre-interview wait-list.

BCOM's first class graduates this Spring. The 3rd years just found out COMLEX 1 pass rate was 82%. This is a 3% drop from the current 4th years on COMLEX 1 who got 85%. If I'm not mistaken, the 4th years should be getting back their COMLEX Level 2 - CE scores soon and should've taken COMLEX Level 2 - PE a while ago.

I am very nervous about attending this school. I really need some guidance on what to do from here. What do I do if I don't receive another II? Their deposit is $3,000. If admitted, the deposit is due within 30 days.

Please consider signing this important petition, which calls on the American Osteopathic Association to condemn DOs who propagate misinformation with regard to COVID19 vaccines.

https://www.change.org/p/american-osteopathic-association-condemn-vaccine-misinformation

AOA auto-generated letter to senator

The link above is prepared by AOA president to email your Senator in California. Please take time to sign and oppose the scope creep by mid levels.

It would be nice if AMA can also fight for us.

http://www.azdo.gov/forthepublic/File-A-Complaint.aspx

I used the following description after reporting to the M.D. website and receiving a response from them this morning. This was taken from /u/Inside_Edition 's submission. I added some choice quotes from his two recent interviews. "Hello, I would like to ask if the Arizona medical board is aware of the statements made by a Dr. Jack Wolfson, a cardiologist who practices in [personal info], AZ, regarding the topic of child vaccinations. In short, Dr. Wolfson claimed in an interview which was broadcast nationally that vaccines such as the MMR vaccine were the cause of diseases such as autism or even leukemia. Normally, simply being wrong about the science of vaccines is unfortunate but not a dire offense, but in Dr. Wolfson's case one might argue that his anti-vaccination, anti-medicine, anti-health stance poses a significant, clear, and imminent threat to the well-being of his patients. As the recent Disneyland measles incident and the subsequent outbreaks have shown, lacking vaccination rates now affect Americans everywhere, not just in the individual states. Uninformed and misguided individuals like Dr. Wolfson pose a serious risk to the health of Americans everywhere, and should be subject to a thorough investigation of whether they conform to established medical standards or whether their licenses should be revoked. Thank you for your time. P.S.: Quotes from a recent interview. "As far as I'm concerned, it's very likely that her leukemia is from vaccinations in the first place." "We should be getting measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, these are the rights of our children to get it."

"It's not my responsibility to inject my child with chemicals in order for [a child like Maggie] to be supposedly healthy."

He should not be allowed to use his medical license as a way to stand behind these scientifically false claims.

From an email received today by Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine:

"Our new SpartanPA Medicine Program, among the first in the nation to synergize the education of PA and DO students, will drive inter-professional education.
Michigan State University has long wanted a Physician Assistant (PA) master’s degree program to expand its capacity to provide inter-professional education among our health sciences colleges, and to further its land-grant mission of improving the health and well-being of Michigan, the nation and beyond. The question was, who could successfully implement this goal?
Ultimately, the university turned to the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine to take the lead and see this vision through. It has been a very long journey spanning half a decade, but today we are proud to announce that the college’s PA Medicine Program has received Accreditation-Provisional status from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). ARC-PA has strict requirements for public announcements regarding the establishment of any new PA program prior to being granted accreditation, designed to protect the interests of potential PA program applicants who are considering which programs to apply to. Thus, our public communications about the program up until now have been limited.
In my many meetings with our college’s DO faculty and alumni, most have acknowledged that they already work with and/or employ PAs in a number of clinical settings, and the strength of that partnership has resulted in improved health outcomes for the patients they care for. They readily share that without the exceptional support provided by PAs, their practices could not survive the balancing act that is today’s health care system.
Currently the PA profes

This is pretty huge. The Journal of American Osteopathic Association published an article yesterday (thankfully before the end of the comment period!) by Dr. Walter Prozialeck essentially concluding there is no basis for scheduling Kratom as an opioid, that the benefits likely far outweigh the risks, and that research is the answer. Our advocacy work including the March, the petition and our succes with members of Congress are all mentioned. 👊🏻

A few gems:

"Based on all of the evidence, it is clear that kratom and its mitragynine constituents are not opioids and that they should not be classified as such."

"After evaluating the literature, I can reach no other conclusion than, in pure herbal form, when taken at moderate doses of less than 10 to 15 g, pure leaf kratom appears to be relatively benign in the vast majority of users."

(Quote from Susan Ash on Facebook.)

http://jaoa.org/article.aspx?articleid=2588524

I’ve never seen a page that active in my lifetime, as I’ve edited Wikipedia for years. It’s like a flock of hyena editors have marked that page on top of their watch list. It can get almost everyone salty. Try editing one line, and you’ll see some scholar undoing or writing paragraphs about why that sh-t isn’t good.

I was the editor who made various edits to showcase a proper image of DOs, but I got in a recent controversy with one of the editors. It used to be

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO or D.O.) is a medical degree offered by medical schools in the United States.

Some mafcker said, “that sounds vague and misleading (how?)” and BLA BLA and changed it to

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO or D.O.) is a medical degree conferred by osteopathic medical schools in the United States.

I just said that remove the Osteopathic from it because laypeople will think it’s different medical school than medical schools that teach Western medicine, which is false.

See the talk page for more of this drama.

I’ve been banned from editing Wiki from now, but I just request whoever else to keep an eye on the page. I was taught in college that Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source, but I’ve traveled around the world and figured it’s the most popular one. When people Google our degree, that’s almost the first result they see. Become good at editing it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Osteopathic_Medicine

Proposed is the Virtua Health College of Medicine & Health Sciences of Rowan University. The new college will include an osteopathic medical school; an expanded nursing and allied health professions school; a new school of translational biomedical engineering and sciences; and multiple new research institutes. I’m finally happy to see DO programs moving towards research focused initiatives (kinda saw it coming with the 2020 DO-MD merge). Recently, the University of Northern Colorado also took the initiative to open a medical school with the DO program; this is another big movement to establishing more research-focused DO programs.

https://www-nj-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nj.com/news/2022/01/rowan-university-gets-85m-from-virtua-health-for-new-medical-school.html?outputType=amp

This is one physician's informed opinion of the situation. The ABOG recommended vaccination across the board for pregnant and reproductive-aged women without knowing whether it was safe, and threatened physicians with their licenses for providing information that could cause women not to vaccinate. He says,

"There are multiple independent sources all over the world that have observed significant increases in miscarriage (spontaneous abortion), fetal death, fetal malformation, severe placental inflammation, severe IUGR, neonatal demise, infant demise, permanent newborn/infant/child chronic autoimmune diseases, permanent immune deficiency syndromes, chronic permanent CNS diseases and chronic cognitive impairment, seizure disorders and the unleashing of neonatal / infant cancers and opportunistic infections, and many other disastrous consequences. Please understand and recognize it is not incumbent upon me to prove this to ABOG or anyone else; rather, it was incumbent upon those recommending it to show safety data before pushing this extremely dangerous experimental gene therapy in all pregnant women."

Here is the letter:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZAjhxH5TAVOMTYwWTxX6Abrnl8VKThgy/view

It sounds a little out-there in places (esp at the beginning of the letter, talking about how "big tech" profits from this etc), but I think overall he makes an important case.

My summary:

-He says the ABOG's statement threatening to revoke physician's medical licenses if they provided "misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine" is unprecedented, and questions what is considered "misinformation."

-“'Misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine' seems to be 'a euphemism' for any statement or scientific evidence that differs from the prevailing narrative of stakeholders who most stand to profit from the COVID-19 vaccines."

-Summary of evidence that the vaccine is not safe nor effective (page 6, with more details later in the letter)

-He asks the board to be open to opinions outside the narrative:

"In the mid 1800’s Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis opposed the mainstream narrative. He proved that the 50% maternal mortality at Vienna Lying in Hospital could be decreased simply by hand washing. However, he was mocked, derided, and persecuted by the ‘ABOG-like authorities’ of his time. Similarly, those of us who expressed concern and opposed the liberal use of opioids in the 1990’s (including m

SEINFELD X HOUSE

SCENE 1: In the car: Jerry and Elaine are in the front. George and Kramer are in the back.

Jerry: I can’t believe they asked me to do this! I feel important. Raising funds for cancer- such a noble thing to do (he is proud of himself for doing this)

Elaine: How many doctors will there be?

J: I don’t know, why?

E: Nothing. (Thinking: Boy, I really hope to see a cute doctor.)

Kramer: Well, if they are looking for a dermatologist, they’re in luck (clicks tongue)

J: I thought you were the assman

K: uhh.. yeah.. that too.

Jerry looks in the rear view mirror to see a silent George.

J: Hey Georgie boy, what’s up with you?

George: (sad) Nothing. I am unemployed, single and miserable. Everything’s as usual.

J: You know they might have a therapist at the hospital. I might pull a favour, you know?

G: A free therapy session?

J: Yeah

G: Really?

J: I’ll try

G: What does “try” mean? You don’t think they’ll agree to a free therapy session?

J: I don’t know these people

G: So what? You are doing them a favour!

J: It’s a fundraiser

G: You are doing a favour to the cancer patients! Without the patients, where would the hospital be?

J: So?

G: So you’re doing a favour to them, indirectly.

<Jerry looks at him in disgust>

E: Do you think patients get to choose their own doctors?

J: I don’t think so

E: It’s a big hospital. I’m sure there are lots of doctors.

J: I don’t think there are that many doctors in a single hospital

E: No no. If I had a hospital, every patient would get to choose their own doctor

J: Good luck with that, Dr Benes.

<Kramer interrupts>

K: Well, if any patient requests for Dr Van Nostrand, let them know I am in the clinic.

<everyone looks at Kramer>

SCENE 2: They reach the hospital, park the car and enter the building. The Dean, Dr Lisa Cuddy comes to greet Jerry

Dr Lisa Cuddy (LC): Good morning, Mr Seinfeld. I am Lisa Cuddy, the Dean. Thank you so much for doing this. The oncology department really appreciates your help.

J: Oh it’s nothing. (Feeling proud of himself, again). Anyway, these are my friends. This is Elaine (points to Elaine), this is George (points to George) and (points to Kramer) this is K…

K: Dr Van Nostrand, Procotology……and Dermatology too.

<Lisa looks at Kramer with confusion. George looks at Lisa and recognizes her>

G: Karen??!

LC: I’m sorry?

G: You’re Karen, right? You changed your name to Lisa?

LC: I think you have me mistaken for someone e