my mom is an osteopath.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Osteopathic medicine is a branch of the medical profession in the United States. Osteopathic doctors (D.O.s) can become fully licensed physicians (medical doctors) able to practice medicine and surgery in all 50 states and are recognized in 65 other countries, including all Canadian provinces. Frontier physician Andrew Taylor Still founded the profession as a rejection of the prevailing system of medical thought of the 19th century. Still's techniques relied on manipulation of joints and bones, to diagnose and treat illness, and he called his practices \"osteopathy\". By the middle of the 20th century, the profession had moved closer to mainstream medicine, adopting modern public health and biomedical principles. American \"osteopaths\" became \"osteopathic medical doctors\", ultimately achieving full practice rights as medical doctors in all 50 states, including serving in the U.S. armed forces as physicians. The practice has been referred to as the new \"jazz of medicine\", a term coined by\u00a0Dr. Wolfgang Gilliar, an osteopathic physician who is the Dean of\u00a0New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. In modern medicine, any distinction between the M.D. and the D.O. professions has eroded steadily.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Osteopathic medicine is a branch of the medical profession located in the United States. Are you familiar with this practice?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "i always forget what that is about. Is it bones or sports medicine . "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The techniques involve the manipulation of bones and joints in order to diagnose and treat illnesses. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's specialized medicine isn't it."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes. Osteopaths became medical doctors and  thus achieved full practice rights as medical doctors in all states and they also service in the armed forces as physicians."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It sounds a little bit like Chiropractor type medicine."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It has been referred to as the new \"jazz of medicine\" by Dr. Wolfgang Gilliar who is an osteopathic physician and a Dean of New York Institute of Technology college of Osteopathic Medicine.  "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'll have to read up on that. I like medical shows on tv that show operations and talk about diseases."}]