Thomas and Nanci Kuykendall

At 12:01 PM 6/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
>From: "Carol E. Burris" <excaliburris@...>
>
>My dh has served on admission committees for the osteopathic
>medical school for which he works. Nobody cares a bit about high
>school. College and MCAT scores are what the look at.
>Unschooling or homeschooling shouldn't make one bit of difference
>one way or another.
>
>Carol

Cool! I just love the whole osteopathic medicine approach. Very holistic
and oriented at approaching the entire patient as a person with
psychological/emotional needs to consider and other medical conditions that
might affect seemingly unrelated things in their health. As opposed to the
traditional medicine method of treating symptoms, which may not be what is
needed to take care of the underlying cause.

Sigh.... my sister is an osteopathic pathologist and gp, and coincidentally
our family doctor before we moved was an osteopath who went to school with
her. We were not able to find an osteopath in our new area. With two
little ones, one with a LOT of allergies, I have to run to the doctor
often. Our doctor is competent and has a good manner, and I was satisfied
with his help when I was delivering our second baby. But he is what I
would call a prescription doctor and always whips out that pad, every time
we go to him. I use my judgement and do not always get them filled, but I
wish he was more eager to prescribe diet changes, physical therapy, natural
approaches before we resort to drugs.

Anyway, I am rambling... :-)

Nanci K. in Idaho