Woe.be.gone
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There does not appear to be an osteopathic medicine program at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI where Paul attends.
Here's a link to OD schools in USA:
http://www.osteopathic.org/inside-aoa/about/affiliates/Pages/osteopathic-medical-schools.aspx
Whole person medicine is ahead of the times as far as reality goes imo.
Besides, once you have a problem you just want a doctor who believes you and can find the cause of it and hopefully fix it. While they're doing that, it would be nice if they kept in mind you're a person who may be waiting (and anxious) to find out if death seems imminent or not.
How's this for an example (not as severe as waiting on a possible death sentence) - pretend you go to the emergency room while your five year old is at school and your husband is deployed (so nobody is around to help you with an issue like this) because while taking a shower, you feel a little bump between your shoulder blades. Lo and behold, you can see by using a handheld mirror, what looks like a tick there. So, you quickly get dressed and go the ER thinking, 'yikes, how long has that thing been there?".
Once you get to the ER, they take their time calling your name. Finally, you're brought into a little curtain area. The doctor who tends to you can't find the tool/instrument he's looking for and begins asking everybody and calling different people inquiring where's the ???. In the meantime, almost two hours later by now, the doctor and another medical 'professional' begin chatting about a policy argument or a medical issue that is unrelated to the tick that's still clinging to your back. You've finally had it and ask, 'Hey, doctor, remember me? Are you going to take the damn tick out of my back?" (Kid needs to be picked up at school and you're beginning to freak out.)
Okay that gets his attention but, for some reason, taking the tick out isn't too easy and he expresses the difficulty he's having out loud (without the special tool - never located the darn thing afterall). Finally the tick is out and three people (others have already been in and out looking at your back) come in to look, discussing the tick as if you're not there. In case you haven't guessed by now, this happened to me.
A few days later, I receive a call from doctor somebody who begins by telling me "Congratulations, you don't have syphilis." Me - "What?"
Turns out the lyme test is similar to the one used to determine syphilis.
Me - "Real funny, a-hole". The doctor thinks he's funny; he likes to practice his stand up on patients who are waiting for test results (I guess)! Professional? Would you employ him? Make you feel secure/respected?
Paul sounds as if he wanted to improve upon a climate problem. Although he probably didn't even know how bad it might be.