A practitioner who diagnoses and treats disease.
A health professional with the degree of doctor of osteopathy, or D.O., who has trained in and is licensed to perform general medicine and surgery, including use of drugs, but who works within the system of osteopathic medicine, which sees the body’s nerve-muscle-skeletal network as key to health functioning and uses various manipulative techniques as part of therapy to restore what are seen as imbalances in the system.