Forbes lacks sensitivity to Salzberg's insults onto DO profession

After 6 weeks of insulting blogs posted by Dr. Salzberg on Forbes, Forbes has failed to respond to the outcry of the osteopathic community and its patients. Hundreds of letter to editor and comments, Forbes has remained silent on the issue. The least that Forbes could have done and can still do is to do a fair coverage of DOs' contributions to the healthcare of this great nation.


The following letter to editor of Forbes

Dear Editor:

I would like to bring to your attention about the 2 blogs posted by Dr. Salzberg on osteopathic medicine. The mispresentation in an insulting manner of osteopathic medicine as a profession has caused an uproar and comments on the blogs over the past few days. I do not know what motives behind the blogs against Osteopathic medicine are? is he trying to get notoriety? The two blogs have totalled 50,000 viewings and 310 comments.

Dr. Salzberg claims to be a scientist in its pure sense and he has definitively not done his home work and research. I acknowledge that DO brand is less known to the public because we only represent 7% of the physician workforce. However, the profession has grown exponentially over the past 3 decades. Currently, 20% of medical students are DO students and that number continues to rise to 25% in 10 years.

He lives in the Ivy League world and disregards the common sense held by the rest of the country. I would like to bring to your attention about the new way of ranking medical schools, not soley based on research. It is based how the schools respond to the needs of the population.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/health/17chen.html
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/06/21/ranking_medical_schools_based_on_their_social_miss ion/

Also, the MCAT scores or GPAs do not make how good a physician will become and how a person is as reflected in the AAMC's aggregated table of MCAT scores. There are people with less than 14 points of MCAT are enrolled into MD schools and more than 35% of MD students have less than 29 points.
https://www.aamc.org/download/157450/data/table24-mcatgpagridall2008-10.pdf.pdf

I am submitting to you an article on osteopathic medicine, well-researched and up-to-date. I hope that Forbes will take action to remedy the incidentary, discriminatory, insulting opinion that Forbes has allowed against 70,000 DOs, 18,000 DO students and the patients they treat. At the present time, there is no more animosity between the MD and DO professions as attested by the facts that Humayun J. Chaudhry, DO, is serving as the president and chief executive officer of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States and about 60% of DO graduates participate in the allopathic profession’s Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) residency programs.
I am a testimony of the american dream as i immigrated to the USA at 19 with my english broken into 3 (vietnamese. french and English), osteopathic medicine has given me the opportunity to be where i am now in my career and providing the care to prevent blindness.

If i can be of any further help, feel free to contact me throught email. I am looking forward to hearing from Forbes.