I prefer DOs to MDs. Most of my doctors are DOs. I find they have a better outlook on treating people with as little meds as possible. With my long allergy list to meds I find DOs far more sensitive to my needs. The last MD I saw for a procedure wanted to give me an antibiotic that produced anaphylaxis in me. He said it wasn't a true allergy, just a side effect. I refused to take it and he is no longer a doctor of mine. My PCP does OMM as part of my visit. He sees me for a half hour. He cares about me physically, mentally, and spiritually. He also happens to be the same age as my older son! My pain management doctor , also the same age as my older son and a DO, as did my PCP both asked me to be a patient of theirs - one through seeing me in an osteopathic clinic for osteopathic manipulative medicine and the other by a request from an older pain management doctor who couldn't deal with my allergies. They and my other DOs show more interest in the person they are treating than MDs who are looking for meds to get them out of the office. My husband's sleep doctor is a DO and the other day when my husband exhibited a strange behavior that has become normal to him, he has some form of dementia, the doctor pursued by asking relevant questions and asked me to get his other doctors to send him reports. He also expressed compassion for my situation. DOs aren't people who have been rejected by med schools as I use to hear. They just have, in my opinion, a deeper desire to help people in a different way than MDs. Osteopathy has been around for over a century.