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": "user", "content": "My daughter recently had a wreck and has to see an osteopathic doctor soon"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh wow I am sorry, that consists of manipulation of joints and bones."}, {"role": "user", "content": "yes, she is currently having to wear a back brace."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Is her lower part of her body okay? Her pelvis?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "actually it is her lower lumbar...L4.  She is only 17, I hope it doesn't affect her for life"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well if it's any consolation osteopaths can work in all fifty states with full rights."}, {"role": "user", "content": "well, that's a start I suppose!  I wonder if insurance covers it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That would depend on your health insurance if it fully covers the injury."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm hoping the other party's insurance will cover it, as it was thankfully not her fault"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well there is no fault insurance as well, that covers regardless of fault."}, {"role": "user", "content": "thanks!"}]