Osteopathy is More Important Than EVER

I tell my medical students, “If a patient has a problem, it’s probably something you did to them.” The point is…

Look at their medicine list. Is their complaint a side effect of a medicine we gave them?

This is a sad reality. Medicine is more available than ever before. But, we’re not healthier than ever before. So what gives?

Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of Osteopathic Medicine, once said, “The role of the osteopath is to facilitate the body’s self-healing process.”

God created us with an amazing ability to heal from injury and illness. This doesn’t mean we won’t struggle of course. And it doesn’t mean that if you do everything right you won’t get sick or die…

You will.

But the point is, the physician should be working with your body’s ability to heal and not against it.

“The physical body is the basis of life.”

Dr Andrew Taylor Still