Medical Doctor

“Allopathic medicine” is a term that is sometimes used to refer to modern or mainstream medicine. Other names for allopathic medicine include:

• conventional medicine
• mainstream medicine
• Western medicine
• orthodox medicine
• biomedicine

Allopathic medicine is also called allopathy. It’s a health system in which medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals are licensed to practice and treat symptoms and diseases.

Treatment is done with:

• medication
• surgery
• radiation
• other therapies and procedures

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Osteopathic physicians believe there’s more to good health than the absence of pain or disease. Learn more about the DO distinction.

Osteopathic medicine is one of the fastest-growing health care professions in the country, with one out of every four medical students enrolled in an osteopathic medical school. Accounting for approximately 11% of all physicians in the United States, Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine, or DOs, apply a unique patient-centered approach to the full spectrum of care.

Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine practice in all medical specialties, including primary care, pediatrics, OBGYN, emergency medicine, psychiatry and surgery. Moreover, DOs hold some of the most prominent positions in medicine today, including overseeing care for the President of the United States, the NASA medical team, Olympic athletes and many who serve in the uniformed services.

From their first days of medical school, DOs are trained to look beyond your symptoms to understand how lifestyle and environmental factors impact your well-being. They practice medicine according to the latest science and technology, but also consider options to complement pharmaceuticals and surgery.

As part of their education, DOs receive special training in the musculoskeletal system, your body’s interconnected system of nerves, muscles and bones. By combining this knowledge with the latest advances in medical technology, they offer patients the most comprehensive care available in healthcare today.

By focusing on prevention and tuning into how a patient’s lifestyle and environment can impact their wellbeing. DOs strive to help their patients be truly healthy in mind, body and spirit — not just free of symptoms.

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Pharmacist (modern of ancient Apothecary):

1. One that prepares and sells drugs and other medicines.
2. One who practices pharmacy; a skilled person who prepares drugs for medicinal uses and keeps them for sale; a pharmacist.
3. One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

What is a PharmD? 

A Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD; New Latin: Pharmaciae Doctor) is a professional doctorate in pharmacy. In some countries, it is a doctoral degree to practice the profession of pharmacy or to become a clinical pharmacist. In many countries they are allowed to practice independently and can prescribe drugs directly to patients. A PhD program has significant experiential or clinical education components in introductory and advanced levels for the safe and effective use of drugs. Experiential education prepares graduates to be practice-ready, as they already have spent a significant amount of time training in areas of direct patient care and research

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