re: Oppose the proposed ULM School of Osteopathic Manipulative "Medicine"

The need for diverse training options are needed due to the quickly changing landscape & view of healthcare today. Patients are increasingly doing their own "research" and taking healthcare advice from celebrities. People are so desperate to look outside of medication to treat/prevent acute and chronic dieseases that they are turn to dangerous treatment options (i.e. stupid oils, ear candling, and other bogus non-FDA approved pills, etc...) in order to have some control over their treatment plan. It's dangerous and shortsighted, but it is happening.

I think in order for your field to keep up with the times, you guys need to look towards alternative methods of educating the same topic and take some cues from DOs in terms of a more holistic approach to medicine in order to sell your worth to the uneducated.