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How many patients do Osteopathic Manipulation doctors see in a day?

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Dan’s Answer

Depends on your specialty. As an osteopathic physician, you can specialize in whatever you want as long as you have the board scores, grades and personality for it.
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I am a DO as well, and a DO's patient load, in a nutshell: completely dependent on their specialty. This is true for MD doctors as well.

For example, if you are in family medicine/internal medicine and work doing solely primary care for outpatient (not in the hospital) clinics, these days average is 20-22 or more. Many primary care doctors only get 15 mins to see a patient.

If you are a physician doing procedures / surgeries, these are much longer time slots (from perhaps 1 hour to many hours depending on complexity) so you will not be seeing as many high numbers. Some of these doctors may also have their own practice and manage both inpatient and outpatient work and have variable numbers.

Specific to DOs, they may decide to provide purely OMT/OMM for their practice; my medical school had a OMM clinic, and appointments there were about 1 hour, so probably 10 patients or less a day.
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