re: Wisconsin Hospital Replaces All Anesthesiologists with CRNAs

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But not the same training or level of expertise. They do “adjustments” FFS, like chiropractors. They are not trained in medical schools and they don’t have equivalent intelligences.

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lmao I believe you are referring to DO's if so you are hilariously uninformed (or trolling).

same material is covered in both medical schools, but also DO's waste time learning garbage adjustments. Many DOs take the USMLE which is the test MDs take during school. They train in the exact same residencies, at the exact same level, to gain the exact same expertise, to do the exact same job.

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But not the same training or level of expertise. They do “adjustments” FFS, like chiropractors. They are not trained in medical schools and they don’t have equivalent intelligences.

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Yeah, no one gives a shite about the distinction anymore, as evidenced the fact that the ACGME and AOA started a merger in 2014 so that there is a single accreditation system for graduate medical education, as already referenced in this thread. Which means they do have the same exact training, sit for the same exams, compete for the same residencies, etc. I think another unique quirk might be that MDs can apply for old AOA residencies, but I'm not at that portion of my education yet, so I can't say for sure.

The existence of DOs is due to peculiar quirks of American history and its relationship with the traditional mode of medicine at the time, called Heroic Medicine. I highly suggest you read The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr to get an inkling at how crazy the practice of medicine was before the Civil War, because it was a direct response to the practice of heroic medicine that alternative therapies began, which includes virtually every tradition of medicine, including allopathic, osteopathic, chiropractic, and naturopathic, among others.

In another weird quirk, one of the largest private medical schools in the country was teaching homeopathy until the late 20s, though the naming history of that school is convoluted. It is now Drexel, but at one time was associated with Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy. The history of American medicine, especially in the antebellum period, is tremendously interesting.