Joe Biden's Osteopathic Doctor Pleads The Fifth On Mental Acuity: Do Vs Md

As nan probe into Joe Biden’s intelligence acuity continues, nan erstwhile president’s individual physician, Kevin O’Connor, DO, made an quality this week successful Washington, D.C., successful beforehand of nan House Oversight Committee.

O'Connor sat down for a closed-door question and reply connected Wednesday pinch committee unit and sheet chair James Comer, R-Ky. — but O'Connor invoked nan Fifth Amendment to each questions, prevention for his name, arsenic Fox News Digital antecedently reported.

In nan aftermath of this, galore group person been wondering: What's nan quality betwixt a expert of osteopathic medicine (DO) and a expert of medicine (MD)?

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Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News' elder aesculapian analyst, confirmed that nan capabilities of some a DO and an MD are nan same, moreover erstwhile it comes to acknowledging intelligence diminution aliases diagnosing and screening for prostate cancer.

"He's a DO and he's a family practitioner," said Siegel. "With that training, he should cognize really to surface for prostate cancer."

The House Oversight Committee questioned erstwhile President Joe Biden’s White House expert Kevin O'Connor, DO, shown present pinch Biden, during a proceeding this week arsenic portion of a probe into Biden's intelligence decline.  (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Training arsenic a DO should not "take away" from aesculapian training aliases aesculapian education, said Siegel, who’s an internist — it only adds osteopathic methods specified arsenic manipulative treatment.

"I'm trained to beryllium capable to suss retired cognitive decline," said Siegel. "I'm not a master successful that, but I tin surely surface for that. And truthful should a family practitioner who went to osteopathic school."

He added, "He's a feline who should say, ‘Hey, [Biden’s] sewage immoderate cognitive decline. Let maine get a neurologist successful here.’"

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As a White House physician, O’Connor’s work was to reside nan aesculapian needs of nan president. 

But DOs person much of a attraction connected nan "mind, body, spirit connection," according to Cleveland Clinic.

MDs and DOs person akin schooling, do nan aforesaid jobs, tin prescribe medicine and believe anyplace successful nan country. Still, DOs attack medicine much holistically, according to nan aforesaid source.

DOs and MDs person nan aforesaid benignant of training and tin administer nan aforesaid modern aesculapian treatments. But DOs whitethorn attack medicine much holistically. (iStock)

Cleveland Clinic defines osteopathic medicine arsenic treating patients arsenic a full and improving wellness done acquisition and prevention.

DOs besides person other training successful osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM), which is simply a hands-on method for treating and diagnosing patients.

This replacement training and attack don’t specify a doctor’s practice, arsenic DOs usage "all types of modern aesculapian treatments," according to Cleveland Clinic — while MDs tin besides supply whole-person, preventive care.

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DO training was first developed successful 1892 by expert Andrew Taylor Still, MD, who changed his accuracy of medicine aft nan Civil War, nan aforesaid root noted.

He believed accepted medicine to dainty spinal meningitis, which killed three of his children, was ineffective — and developed nan conception of osteopathic medicine.

"Osteopathic manipulative medicine, aliases osteopathic manipulative curen (OMT), involves manipulating (touching aliases moving) your muscles, bones and joints," Cleveland Clinic notes. (iStock)

In nan U.S., arsenic of 2023, location were 154 allopathic aesculapian schools – utilizing medication, surgery and different interventions to dainty illnesses – and 38 otheopathic medicine schools, according to Cleveland Clinic.

A 2024 study from nan American Osteopathic Association recovered that 57% of DOs believe family medicine, soul medicine and pediatrics — compared to 28% of MDs.

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The number of DOs successful nan U.S. has been connected nan emergence successful nan past decade, according to nan aforesaid report. 

Nearly 70% of DOs successful progressive believe are nether property 45 — and 45% are female.

Several U.S. presidents person been nether nan attraction of osteopathic physicians successful caller years.

O’Connor was appointed by Biden successful 2021, serving until March 2025 successful nan domiciled of White House physician. 

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Dr. Sean Barbabella, DO, stepped into nan domiciled that aforesaid month. He is simply a dressed up Navy expert who served successful Afghanistan and Iraq. 

Before becoming expert to President Donald Trump, Barbabella ran nan Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point successful Havelock, North Carolina, according to aggregate sources. 

Dr. Sean Conley, DO, served arsenic a expert to Trump during his first term, from 2018 to 2021. 

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House GOP members, including Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, a erstwhile White House expert himself, proceed to analyse accusations that Biden's erstwhile apical White House aides covered up signs of his mental and beingness decline while successful office, and whether immoderate executive actions were commissioned via autopen without nan president's afloat knowledge. 

Biden friends person been pushing backmost connected those claims.

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed reporting.