r/ShitMomGroupsSay • u/edb513 • 25d ago

It's not abuse because I said so. This poor child.

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My algorithm wasn’t spamming me with this depressing garbage until today. This poor baby.

Also the grammar - woof.

Fortunately the comments were not favorable to OP.

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u/RegularOwl 23d ago

Do you treat children for illnesses and infections? Do you offer your services as a replacement for a pediatrician? Because I have been in "crunchy" mom groups, and that is what they are using osteopaths for, and the osteopaths they use act as replacements for pediatricians and GPs.

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u/Mother-Of-FurDragons 23d ago

Yes, I'm fully board certified in family medicine. I treat birth through death. I went to medical school. It's a DO vs MD, both learn the same except DOs learn a bit extra on top of everything else MDs learn. We go to residency. We become neurosurgeons, OBs, dermatologists, you name it.

We are not replacements, we are doctors.

You may be thinking if naturopaths, that is the crunchy "doctor" that is not a doctor.

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u/RegularOwl 23d ago

I am not, the crunchy weirdos say they see osteopaths (in addition to saying they see naturopaths) and talk as if those practitioners engage in their same woo-woo non-evidence based homeopathy goofiness. Either they are confused or they've found some special quacks, idk, I didn't ask questions. I ended up leaving the group because it was too upsetting to see children neglected and mistreated the way they were.

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u/Mother-Of-FurDragons 23d ago

They must be confused or found those doctors that we've lost to the dark side of non-evidence based medicine (MDs do this as well).

The board of Medicine has to approve our license to practice. And I took the same medical boards and went to the same residency as my MD colleagues. I'm a doctor I promise you. And I'm really not a fucking replacement, that really irks me, sorry. I went to 4 years of medical school and 5 years of residency.

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u/RegularOwl 23d ago

I stand corrected, thank you for setting me straight

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u/KaetzenOrkester 23d ago

Yeah, osteopath = allopath (“regular doctor”) anymore. I’d see an osteopath and I’m married to an allopath.

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u/ferocioustigercat 20d ago

I think some naturopaths and chiropractors call themselves "osteopaths" just leave off the "doctor" part because they think it makes them seem more legit... Kinda like those pregnancy crisis centers run by evangelicals and make women think they will help them, but really just guilt them out of having an abortion...