Allopathic Physician (M.D.)

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Duties and Responsibilities: Allopathic physicians, M.D.s, are medical doctors who treat disease and injury using

counteractive methods. For example, they will prescribe antibiotics to kill bacteria

that have caused an infection.

Salary: "greater than $80 per hour or $166,400 per year.

Education: There are two broad approaches to medicine, allopathic and osteopathic.  Allopathic medicine treats disease by the use of remedies that produce effects different than those produced by the disease.  Also called conventional medicine, and practiced by physicians with an MD degree, allopathic medicine focuses on treating a specific ailment, often by use of pharmaceuticals and surgery.  Osteopathic medicine, however, expands on the tools of allopathic approaches and includes diagnoses and treatments involving a system of therapy known as osteopathic manipulative medicine. Being a more holistic approach, patient treatment focuses on assisting an individual to achieve good health by way of patient education as well as injury and disease prevention.  Doctors of osteopathic medicine earn DO degrees.

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