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While attending a course on the temporal bone at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles many years ago, I first came across osteopathic doctors in my professional career. The temporal bone is part of the inner portion of the ear, and the surgery can be quite complex and difficult. It is not always something that can be fully mastered during surgical residency, and it often requires further training.

Osteopathic doctors practice just like medical doctors; for example, they prescribe medicine, do further specialty training, perform surgeries, and take care of patients in a hospital. Their training and practice is somewhat different in that they concentrate on the muscular-skeletal aspect of the body and perform procedures such as spinal manipulations — something that medical doctors do not usually do.

An office for osteopathic doctors would, for the most part, seem exactly the same as medical doctors and patients might never be able to tell the difference in how the two professions function.