Choosing A Doctor Part 2: First Test

On Sunday, you fall on a rock and hurt your ankle. It's swollen and painful. You can (choose one):

a. Go to an Emergency Room on Sunday. Pay a big copay or deductible depending on your insurance. Wait in a room with coughing and screaming people for 2 hours and then be seen. An emergency room doctor who will not see you ever again wants to be sure not to miss anything. You get a shot for pain, a tetanus shot, X-rays, MR or CT scan, some kind of wa...

1. Integrative MD- Conventional and Alternative Medicine

2. Conventional DO (Doctor of Osteopathy)- Conventional Medicine like MD's but MAYBE does osteopathic manipulation

3. Integrative DO- Conventional and Alternative Medicine usually does osteopathic manipulation

   [These physicians have a minimum of four (4)years of medical school training and most have trained in a specialty for at least three to seven (3- 7) years. They ...