A personal appeal letter was sent out to the UNTHSC faculty members to urge them to take a better look at the UNTMD proposal from all angles.
- " You are barking up the wrong tree...and your concerns are based on the past, not the future. Being an osteopath has little or nothing to do with being a vitreo-retinal surgeon."
Last time I checked, I am a DO, an osteopath, an osteopathic physician, a physician and surgeon, an ophthalmologist and retinal surgeon, and a clinical assistant professor of surgery at an MD school. Last time I checked, DOs specialize in all fields of medicine and surgery.
Believe it or not, the 90s was the decade of Lasik surgery in ophthalmology. The next decade is Retina decade in ophthalmology as there have been so many new modalities to treat and improve vision of blinding conditions.
I am puzzled and do not know how to answer to his comments. Would anyone help me how to reply to such a comment!
A famous patient and friend of the founder of Osteopathy once made a remark that may be relevant to this situation. Mark Twain said, "Asking an M.D. about Osteopathy is like asking the Devil about Jesus Christ." Enlightenment of even the most erudite educators may be akin to trying to sell a Buick to Henry Ford.
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ReplyDeletePerhaps you would be happier working at an allopathic institution on other side of I-30 (if they would hire you that is).
Shame on you for not know the unique differences between allopathic and osteopathic medicine.
Shame on you for not knowing and appreciating the rich osteopathic history at YOUR institution.
And you call yourself a teacher??
To follow you own words, "..Being an UNGRATEFUL allopath like yourself has little and no place at an osteopathic institution with deep and rich tradidions like the UNTHSC/TCOM."
Shame on you for trying to destroy 100 years plus of struggle and of blood, sweats, tears of the dedicated osteopathic teachers and supporters.
You, sir, are the very malignant and cancerous seed at the heart of the UNTHSC/TCOM institution.
The cure? Total hysterect w/ bilateral -ectomy and complete excisions with wide margins......
Else, this cancer will spread.....
To the dear OB/GYN MD at TCOM:
ReplyDeleteWhat are you doing teaching at an osteopathic school if you dont believe in the institution's deep ostepathic history and tradition?
I am rather puzzled too. What an odd comment to make. I'm not sure why he thinks he is qualified to say what or what isn't "an osteopath" or a "vitreo-retinal surgeon." He doesn't say anything else to support his assertion, which leads me to think he is speaking without thinking. Great.
ReplyDelete-Leslie Ching, DO
DocJoBlo:
ReplyDeleteYour comments show your medical and surgical skills, and also familiar of the DFW area. I appreciate very much your passion for DO profession and against prejudice. However, please dont be too harsh on your comments!
Just so you know, that professor you are bashing is one of the best professors we have at TCOM. His dedication and devotion to our school out-weights that of most DOs in our community. You are bashing people and attacking individuals that are trying to help protect and save our school. We do not have a hospital like in the old days. This MD school would enable more rotation spots for us in Fort Worth. Already, 40 or so of my classmates are going to be forced to move from Fort Worth to do their rotations across the state. If these hospitals partner with another MD school, then where will we go??
ReplyDeleteI am just asking for comments how reply to his comments. Do you know which ob/gyn professor I had communication with?
ReplyDeleteI never revealed the identity of the one I had communications with.
Thats impressive you have close relationship with him or her...you will have good and personal recommendation letter.
Hey EyeDrd:
ReplyDeleteI made some assumptions, maybe incorrect, but when you stated professor, I took that as the individual's title. Which in looking at our OB/GYN Dept, takes the numbers from 57 individuals to 2 individuals. And based on figuring out which two individuals, I used my personal judgment on who I thought it would be. Though I may be wrong on who I think the person may be, I can say that we at TCOM are very fortunate to have an incredible OB/GYN department with both DOs and MDs being some of the best, most passionate doctors that I have had the privilege to learn from.
I do appreciate the dedication of the faculty MDs, DOs, PhDs, and the other staff. As you can witness in my new post http://www.eyedrd.org/2011/02/earlier-communications-with-same-md.html
ReplyDeleteso that there is no bashing from my part and always appreciative for teaching TCOM students. Did he bother to enter a debate of issues that i raised? FYI: I was trained in MI, the MSU allopathic school has moved most of its teaching to Grand Rapids from Lansing, MSU-COM established 2 new branched in Detroit.
Interesting -- so doesn't it strike you as odd that these clinical rotation slots magically appear if/when the MD school is opened? But if it's TCOM-only, the clinical rotation slots aren't there? Hmm, no thanks, I won't (as a D.O.) sit at the back of the bus just because some incompletely trained allopathic physician says to....yeah, I said incompletely trained, they have no clue about the paradigm that we D.O.'s operate from....
ReplyDeleteAs a D.O. student, you really can't appreciate the difference. Believe me, I asked that question as a student,"What makes us different" thinking it was just a bunch of archaic stuff from 'old line' D.O.'s who were hanging on to a bygone paradigm. It took about 4 months of an allopathic residency for the answer to become crystal clear.
Osteopathy is not restricted to OMT -- it's a paradigm, a gestalt, a way of viewing a patient that has to be experienced to be appreciated....for those that aren't D.O.'s....you'll just never understand......
This "professor" sounds like another embittered doctor unable to make his place in the real world of medicine. An MD option is nothing more than an attempt at validation for a chancellor with a step child complex because he has a second tier university system. The MD option does nothing but erode the foundation of primary care this state and country desperately needs.
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