Osteopathic Medicine: Information for Patients and Health Care Consumers

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DOs, like MDs, are fully qualified physicians licensed to prescribe medication and perform surgery. Approximately 60% of practicing osteopathic physicians practice in the primary care specialties of family medicine, general internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology.

Nothing is more important than the health of you and your family. Use this resource to gain the knowledge you need to make informed health care decisions. From asthma to winter blues, the osteopathic approach to medical care can serve all your health needs.

Search for an osteopathic physician by name, location or specialty. Results include AOA members in active practice with a business address on record with the AOA

As the only museum dedicated to the national history of osteopathic medicine, the Still National Osteopathic Museum collects artifacts, photographs, documents, and books that trace the history of the osteopathic profession throughout the United States and the world, preserves these unique resources for present and future visitors and researchers and educates thousands of visitors about the unique legacy of Andrew Taylor Still, M.D., D. O., and the osteopathic profession