MedPage Today April 16, 2024
— West Virginia effort hits late obstacle; some DOs fear bias under a combined board
Tom Takubo, DO, an osteopathic physician and pulmonary critical care specialist, is exasperated and crestfallen.
Since 2017, the West Virginia state senator has questioned why his state has two separate agencies to license and discipline its osteopathic versus its allopathic physicians. Each board has its own rules and standards of practice that vary in at least a dozen perplexing ways. He said it’s confusing to patients, it’s strange, and constitutes a double standard.
“Why are we working under two separate rules, depending only on where we went to medical school?” Takubo asked during an interview with MedPage Today.
It’s an important question.
After all, 37...
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