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": "Are you familiar with osteopathic medicine? It is a branch of medicine in the United States."}, {"role": "user", "content": "No I'm not, what does it entail?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "IT places an emphasis on things like readjustments and manipulations of muscle and bone."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I see, that sounds like what a chiropractor does"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes but they thought they could cure many things. By the mid 20th century they adopted more modern principles of health."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's good, modern medicine is pretty great"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes and now osteopaths can acheive full rights as medical doctors in all 50 states of America."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, I'm glad it is recognized and regulated"}]