Evo of DO (12)

Question 1

Arthur Hildreth, DO

Answer 1

lobbied for independent board for osteopathy and full scope of practice -pure osteopathy (no drugs)

Question 2

Littlejohns

Answer 2

proponents of broad osteopathy (except pharm)

• worked for scientific evidence of osteopathy
• founded American College of Osteopath an Surgery (now Midwestern)

Question 3

Lesion Osteopaths

Answer 3

-argued against any adjunctive therapies (supported A.T. Still)

Question 4

broad osteopaths

Answer 4

wanted to expand DO practice allowing surgery and drugs

Question 5

1930

Answer 5

broad osteopathy wins out and drugless profession is no more

Question 6

ACOM founded

Answer 6

1898

Question 7

1916

Answer 7

AOA required 4 year education (didn’t really happen until 1920)

Question 8

“Standardization of Hospitals” policy

Answer 8

1918- required that MD training sites (hospitals) to exclude DO’s from staff privileges

Question 9

Louisa Burns

Answer 9

1917- first full-time researcher for osteopathic medicine

Question 10

Hill-Burton Act of 1946

Answer 10

provided federal support to build osteopathic hospitals

Question 11

California Debacle

Answer 11

began during WWII then later in 1960’s- COA was dropped from AOA and then merged with MD and renounced DO education
-Broad Osteopaths and did not want to be associated with cultist name of DO

Question 12

1959

Answer 12

removed osteopathy from list of “cults” and this allowed MDs to work with DOs

Question 13

Robert McNamara

Answer 13

Sec. of Defense- ordered acceptance of DO’s into military during Vietnam war – became proving ground for DO’s

Question 14

Medicare prospective payment system

Answer 14

limited funds and doomed small hospitals- many were osteopathic (late 20th century)