Osteopathic medicine came to be from a philosophy from Andrew Still after family hardships. After he served in the Union army during the war as a hospital steward, later after the war his wife and two children would die of spinal meningitis. Soon on after that he came to the conclusion that the orthodox methods were ineffective and fatal. Then came osteopathy, in which he dedicated the next thirty years of his life to. Then in 1874 came the …show more content…
WVSOM is the acronym for the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. This wonderful school is located in rural Greenbrier County within the city limits of Lewisburg. In this small, quaint little town don't let the scenery fool you, this is statistically the number one in rural primary care. It keeps proving itself not only nationally but rurally also.
Lastly, I would love to attend and graduate from the this lovely school as a practicing emergency medical physician. My dream of being surrounded by opportunities to save lives is in Lewisburg. They say in their mission statement that it is the schools mission “ to educate students from diverse backgrounds as life long learners in osteopathic medicine”. This is all it would take for me to see that this is a top school for practice medicine and becoming a honest member of society as a doctor.
In Conclusion, I have told you the brief philosophy of osteopathic medicine and how it changed the world of medicine as we know it. He conquered every trial he was faced with and made a great doctor of himself. Then was the life and times of the creator of this medicine, Andrew Taylor