AT Still

About me:

I (A.T. Still) was dissatisfied with the medical paradigm that I saw around me so I started my own school in Kirksville, MO in 1892. Now we are the fastest growing health care profession in the United States with over 60,000 practicing doctors. My graduates in the USA are complete physicans who specialize in all healthcare disciplines from family practice to pediatrics to cardiology and neurology. My graduates in the USA are masters of structure and function specializing in every discipline from general surgey to neurosurgery and from rehabilitation medicine to osteopathic manipulative medicine. Above all, my graduates are "DOCTORS" specializing in the original meaning of the word ... "DOCTOR means TEACHER." The osteopathic approach incorporates the concept that we are all beings of mind, body, and spirit and that optimum health embraces all three together. Disease or dysfunction of one part of our triune being affects all parts. The osteopathic appraoch incorporates the concept that the body has self-healing, self-regulating mechanisms that should be preserved and enhanced. Doctors should not only assist these mechanisms with their choice of treatment but also doctors, as teachers, should help patients understand how to respect and maximize these self-healing mechanisms. The osteopathic approach incorporates the concept that our structure determines how we function and that functional demands can change our structure. We are "fearfully and wonderfully made." We seek maximum function within our body's structure and will do whatever can be safely done to improve cardiovascular, muscular, visceral and somatic structure.