He's also definitely pinging my personality disorder radar. Something is off about the way he presents himself. I know he claims to have autism, but I don't think that's what we're picking up on. It can be difficult to get an accurate idea of someone's real personality via text, but in this case, I think it's pretty apparent that something is amiss, even if it's not clear what exactly that "something" is.
In that reddit thread he said (I think his comment was posted here already, but either way, here it is; dk how to bring in the actual thread, but the comment is about 40% of the way down the reddit thread page)
As a side note, even though it's a bit embarrassing to admit, I have autism and ADHD severely. I also have PTSD from the fire, myopia, increased intelligence, my dad has hashimoto's. I don't have any gender dysphoria, but I do have schizophrenia in my family and a bunch of the other associated things with the MTHFR thing. I ran my own genetics just to see what would happen, and wouldn't you know it, I have two bad genes as well.
Not sure what being near-sighted has to do with anything (seems like an odd thing to associate with the rest, but I also don't know about any actual or hypothesized associated genetic aspects), or when he noticed he has "increased intelligence," but that paragraph contains a
lot.
Totally agree with you on the DO thing, though his school appears to have somewhere between a 5% and 17% acceptance rate, though average college GPA of students was around 3.5. He majored in neurobiology at...I forget where. Seems a lot of DOs practice as PCPs, many in rural areas.
And yes, he said he sees 20 patients/day. I know physicians often book in 15-minute increments (
or less; back in the earlyish HMO days in a huge city, I used to see one who triple- or quadruple-booked for every slot for awhile; current-year, mine seem to book in 30-minute blocks...but paperwork, etc), but with a "specialty" in HIV and trans/detrans, I can't imagine you can/should fly through those consults, done properly.
He does get mostly very positive reviews as far as I have seen, and on FB shows a $ cost (out of $$$$, I guess), though despite his comments about being fully booked, they are accepting new patients.
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There’s no equivalent to a DO outside of the United States, so reading about it was very interesting. There are osteopaths in Europe, but none of them would be allowed to practice outside of their limited scope or claim to be a doctor/physician. I think it’s a four year degree they take, and apart from being able to read X-rays they don’t have much to do with conventional medicine.
From what I read, they promote themselves as just like MDs (and do have license to do what MDs do, I think), but with the addition of physical manipulation training. Ymmv. This one shows a DO internship and residency (iirc) before opening a solo practice.
