State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts v. Giffen

WELLIVER, Judge.

The question in this case is whether appellant's practice of licensing as doctors of medicine (M.D.’s) those foreign medical graduates whose medical degrees do not reasonably translate into that designation denies doctors of osteopathy (D.O.’s) their right to equal protection of the laws. For the reasons that follow, we hold that it does not.

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Osteopathy is a theory of medicine. It differs from the more traditional concept of allopathic medicine in that it places a greater emphasis on the role that the structural harmony of the human body plays in the prevention and cure of…