by Stacy Jackson

December 14, 2023

White Writer Admits Sabotaging Non-White Authors With Fake Negative Reviews

The white author admitted to creating a number of fake accounts on Goodreads to “one-star bomb” rival authors.

Young adult author Cait Corrain has lost her book deal and been forced to publicly apologize after being exposed for sabotaging her non-white competitors. Corrain admitted to creating multiple fake Goodreads accounts to “one-star bomb” rival authors while lavishing praise on her own upcoming novel.

According to the New York Post, Corrain blamed her actions on struggles with “depression, alcoholism and substance abuse” as well as a recent “complete psychological breakdown.” She admitted in an Instagram post that she’d created approximately eight bogus profiles, leaving scathing reviews of several authors’ books that dismissed them as “legitimately awful” and claiming “everyone who says otherwise is on [drugs].”

Among the authors targeted were Molly X. Chang, Danielle Jensen, Kamilah Cole, and Bethany Baptiste, the Post reported. Corrain said her “memories of this are extremely fuzzy” and more authors may have been affected. She also admitted to fabricating a “nonexistent friend” to initially pin the blame on before finally confessing.

Though Corrain accepted “responsibility for the pain and suffering [she] caused,” some authors were skeptical. Baptiste said Corrain “lied in public and in private” and “pinned it all on a fictional person.” She described Corrain’s actions as “intentional” and “deliberate,” noting that Corrain continued to lie even after being given the opportunity to come clean.

Bestselling author Xiran Jay Zhao first exposed Corrain’s fake accounts in a public Google Doc, revealing months of review sabotage intended to boost Corrain’s upcoming novel, Crown of Starlight. Xiran gave Corrain multiple chances to confess on her own before finally revealing the full extent of her duplicity.

In the aftermath, Corrain’s publisher, Del Rey Books, cancelled her book deal, saying, “‘Crown of Starlight’ is no longer on our 2024 publishing schedule.” Her literary agent, Rebecca Podos, severed ties, as did her U.K. publisher, the outlet noted.

Xiran was left wondering, “You ever seen someone destroy their own life?” and suggested that jealousy ultimately motivated Corrain.

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by Iman Milner

December 14, 2023

Georgia Election Worker Testifies Against Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani: ‘I Was Afraid For My Life’

Trump supporters and allies falsely claimed that Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, were involved in changing votes.

Former Georgia election worker Wandrea “Shaye” Moss took the stand on Dec. 12 in the defamation trial against former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who worked as a lawyer for Donald Trump. Moss told jurors that the onslaught of lies brought forth by the 79-year-old conservative and other Donald Trump associates made her fear for her life, The Associated Press reports.

Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, became the target of a conspiracy theory that alleged the 2020 presidential election results in the state had been rigged. Trump supporters and allies falsely claimed that Moss and Freeman were involved in “changing votes.” The 39-year-old woman said that the death threats, harassment, and racist messages she has received have stricken her with fear.

“I’m most scared of my son finding me and or my mom hanging in front of our house on a tree having to get news at school that his mom was killed,” she said. “I was afraid for my life. I literally felt like someone going to come and attempt to hang me and there’s nothing that anyone will be able to do about it.”

Giuliani was found liable in the defamation case and admitted to making “false” statements about the women in July, MSNBC reports, and Moss and Freeman are seeking tens of millions in damages from the disgraced politician. Their lawyers estimate that the negative effect on their reputations could be worth $47 million. Giuliani’s legal team vehemently disagrees with the numbers, saying the request is the “civil equivalent of the death penalty” as Giuliani faces a bevy of lawsuits and is in danger of being disbarred. Still, the former mayor has been unrelenting in his accusations of Moss and Freeman.

On Dec. 12, Giuliani told reporters, “When I testify, the whole story will be definitively clear that what I said was true, and that whatever happened to them — which is unfortunate about other people overreacting — everything I said about them is true.”

Moss pointed to Giuliani’s most recent comments as proof positive that any efforts she and her mother made to move on from the harmful claims continued to be thwarted by Giuliani’s insistence of their guilt. “I personally cannot repair my reputation at the moment because your client is still lying on me and ruining my reputation further,” she told his lawyers.

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by Stacy Jackson

December 14, 2023

Megan Thee Stallion Still Independent Despite Warner Music Group Partnership

Megan Thee Stallion has teamed with Warner Music Group to release new projects but remains unsigned to a label.

Grammy-award winner and THAT girl Megan Thee Stallion is maintaining her independence while partnering with a major music company to distribute her upcoming work.

Though still unsigned to a label, she has teamed with Warner Music Group to release new music she continues to self-fund and retain full ownership of, Complex reported.

As Megan said in a recent Instagram Live captured by a user on X, “I have no label right now and we’re doing everything funded straight out of Megan Thee Stallion’s pocket. The next s**t y’all about to see about to be all straight from Megan Thee Stallion—Megan Thee Stallion brain, Megan Thee Stallion wallet,” the outlet reported.

The artist addressed “the real hotties” in a post on X, saying, “This part of my album is definitely very much funded by Megan Thee Stallion … but I have no label right now and we’re doing everything funded straight out of Megan Thee Stallion pockets.” She echoed a comment by an unidentified voice in the background that the upcoming music would be made possible by her own budget, referred to as “Hot Girl Productions.”

She shared her excitement to be “doing something for the first time independent” since the start of her career. While passing on signing with a label for now, her partnership with Warner Music Group will provide crucial distribution support. Employees from her management company, 300 Entertainment, will assist in the new venture.

The deal comes on the heels of Megan ending a yearslong legal battle with her former label, 1501 Certified Entertainment. Their dispute, stemming from 1501 blocking Megan’s release of new music, concluded in October with a settlement being reached, Complex noted.

Still THAT girl, Megan has continued thriving creatively amidst the legal drama. She released her acclaimed second album, Traumazine, last August, led by her single “Cobra” in October. She also featured on Cardi B’s “Bongos” in September.

by Stacy Jackson

December 14, 2023

Oprah Shares Inspiring Words About Life As She Nears 70

The media icon, who turns 70, in January spoke about gratitude and the decision that led to her rise to global fame.

As Oprah Winfrey nears 70 years old, the cultural icon reflects on her “remarkable journey” from abuse and poverty to becoming a media mogul and billionaire. While her breakout role in 1985’s The Color Purple “changed everything,” she remains focused on uplifting others.

“I will never be done until my last breath,” Winfrey declared to People. And the end of life isn’t something she fears: “And whenever that happens it will be a peaceful breath,” she said.

A fulfilling life is one that involves being grateful for what you have been given, according to the media personality. Winfrey told the outlet, “Gratitude really is my religion.” She begins and ends each day with thanks, a practice she recommends in order to “walk through life feeling the abundance instead of the scarcity.”

Winfrey appreciates how different her path could have been had she stayed in Milwaukee. “I would have had an early death,” she believes. Instead, moving to live with her father in Nashville at the tender age of 14 set her on an extraordinary trajectory.

Global fame and success followed, including 25 years of her groundbreaking talk show. But Winfrey never lost sight of her purpose: “to help other people rise.” Her legacy, she knows, is the lives she’s touched: “Everybody who ever watched a show and decided because of something you said, I’m going to go back to school … That’s a life I touched. And you can’t get better than that.”

Winfrey continues to be inspired by the late poet Maya Angelou, who told her, “My wish for you is that you continue to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.” As Winfrey says, “that is what I intend to do.”

Even today, her purpose remains “to help other people rise.” And it is evident that her legacy already lives in the people she has touched through her many roles.

Winfrey’s movie-musical The Color Purple will be in theaters Dec. 25, 2023.

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by Iman Milner

December 14, 2023

Couple Found Guilty Of Starving Adopted Son, Judge Cries When Recounting Abuse

While sentencing Felicia Adams-Franks and Jesse Franks, Judge Suzan Clark shed tears while recounting the abuse the young boy suffered.

A Washington couple have been sentenced to three decades in prison for starving their adopted 15-year-old son, Karreon Franks, to death and committing a number of atrocities against his two teenage brothers. While sentencing Felicia Adams-Franks and Jesse Franks, Judge Suzan Clark shed tears while recounting the abuse the young boy suffered leading up to his untimely murder, KOIN 6 News reports.

“What happened to Karreon is one of the saddest things I have seen in 37 years: a child with special needs in the condition he was in when he died,” said Clark. “Karreon lived a life that no human being should have to live.”

The fatal neglect occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic when Franks was attending school remotely. In the absence of free meals provided by the state’s free lunch program, the 15-year-old boy went without food and water at the behest of his adoptive parents. Karreon was pronounced dead on Nov. 26, 2020, at a Vancouver hospital, having lost 47% of his body weight and weighing only 61 pounds. Prosecutors argued that his adoptive parents displayed “deliberate cruelty” and “engaged in a pattern or practice of assault or torture” against their adoptive son who lived with several disabilities, including blindness.

The couple turned themselves into authorities in October 2021 and were subsequently charged with the domestic violence homicide of Karreon and the criminal mistreatment of his two teenage brothers; one of whom testified that his food had been restricted and that he had been beaten with an electrical cord while being locked inside of a room. The Davis Law Group claims that the state failed to protect the teenage boys after a complaint filed in 2017 alleged mistreatment in the home, according to The Root.

“Instead of making sure to contact the boy and get the boy immediate medical attention, the state sat on its legs and essentially the boy died a week later from starvation,” said attorney Chris Davis.

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by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman

December 14, 2023

Charles Barkley, Gayle King CNN Show Alleged Flop, Network Reconsidering

"King Charles," the new CNN talk show hosted by Charles Barkley and Gayle King, has been riddled with low ratings blows and personality differences.

Charles Barkley and Gayle King’s new talk show on CNN is already making headlines–but for the wrong reasons. Due to low ratings, the network is reconsidering the King Charles, which debuted its first episode on Nov. 29.

RadarOnline reported the news weeks after its release, with the program only mustering 500,000 viewers in its inaugural airing. The ratings, according to the tabloid, are the lowest ever for a new show on the platform. The show was conjured up by producers given the television personalities’ fondness for one another over the years. However, it looks like the broadcast journalist and sports commentator’s union is not the slam dunk CNN executives thought it would be.

The issue came from the co-hosts’ conflicting styles when it comes to approaching topics. King, a vet of CBS This Mornings‘ mix of hard news and light programming, allegedly wanted Barkley to be more versed in the show’s serious content. However, Barkley has been unwilling to switch up his ways to appease King, leading to supposed friction on set.

“Gayle enjoys being breezy and conversational, but she still considers herself a serious journalist,” shared an insider. “Meanwhile, Charles has a style he’s honed as a TV sports commentator — boastful, outrageous and always with an opinion, even if it isn’t factual, and he knows little to nothing about the topic!”

Since the ratings were blasted to the public, Barkley has continued his comedic trash-talking, this time to the system delivering them. While on the Steam Room podcast, as reported by NextTV, the former NBA player remarked that Nielsen was outdated and the “biggest clowns in the world.”

“An article came out that our ratings weren’t great … but I want to tell my team, man, these Nielsen people are the biggest clowns in the world. Name me one person you know with a Nielsen box,” said Barkley.

King Charles did debut at No. 1 among Black audiences in ratings conducted by VideoAmp suggesting that the talk show is at least being supported by the Black community.

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by Daniel Johnson

December 14, 2023

Minneapolis Man Exonerated After 19 Years: Wrongful Conviction Overturned

Haynes is eligible for restitution, or payments made to compensate him for each year he spent behind bars.

Judge William Koch officially exonerated 36-year-old Minneapolis man Marvin Haynes on Dec 11. Haynes had been behind bars since he was 17 for a crime he never committed. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office charged Haynes for the 2004 murder of Randy Sherer, a 55-year-old flower shop clerk. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, evidence including an out-of-date mugshot and lineup errors were used to convict Haynes, who was sentenced to life in prison. He has spent 19 years behind bars.

At a press conference on the day of his exoneration, Haynes was grateful to his loved ones for their unwavering support.

“I’m so excited,” Haynes said. “My family, it’s been years since I’ve seen a lot of them. I haven’t seen my mom in three or four years because she has health problems, so that’s been difficult to deal with. When I leave here, that’s the first place I’m going.”

Marvin Haynes was wrongfully convicted and his biggest champion for nearly 19 years was his sister Marvina. Today he had the opportunity to thank her while also shining light on the injustices in the system that are responsible for him missing almost two decades of his life pic.twitter.com/THqwRvKGsO
— Georgia Fort (@ByGeorgiaFort) December 12, 2023

Haynes is eligible for restitution, or payments made to compensate him for each year he spent behind bars, but he must file with the Hennepin County District Court. Andrew Markquart, a lawyer with the Great North Innocence Project and Haynes’ representative in court, told the Star-Tribune, “We believe fully in his innocence and it’s been a long time coming for him and his family. We’re just thrilled and happy to be able to play a part in his story.”

"I was innocent from the very beginning. And I am just happy that people recognized it and understand my story and really know that I am actually innocent. I am proud that people know my name and my story."

-Marvin Haynes, who spent 19 years in prison after wrongful conviction: pic.twitter.com/3tamFmQ8MN
— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) December 12, 2023

In 2004, a 16-year-old Haynes was arrested after he missed a curfew violation for a court hearing. Sherer’s sister, Cynthia McDermid, described the person who killed her brother as a thin Black male standing nearly 6 feet tall with close-cropped hair and weighing about 180 pounds. At the time of his arrest, Haynes was 5’7″, 130 pounds, and wore his hair in a long Afro.

However, the investigators working the case showed a two-year-old mugshot of Haynes in which he had a short haircut. After viewing that old mugshot, McDermid picked Haynes out of a lineup of potential suspects.

Marvin Haynes speaks out as a free man shortly after having his murder conviction vacated by a Hennepin County judge. The news conference is streaming now on https://t.co/nygxzWWZqF and stories will follow on @kare11 pic.twitter.com/yC6DOp6fnV
— Kent Erdahl (@kenterdahl) December 11, 2023

In November, Haynes’ lawyers argued in court that the mugshot, investigation, and trial were all suggestive, which warranted overturning Haynes’ conviction.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office agreed. Mary Moriarty, a county attorney, told her staff on Dec. 11, “Sometimes doing the right thing means we must seek to undo the harms of the past, not defend them. And that is what we have tried to do in this case. It is not easy to admit and correct our wrongs. But it is necessary.”

In her appearance at a the news conference, Moriarty did not blame McDermid for selecting Haynes. Instead, she assigned blame to the former prosecutors at her office, including retired Assistant County Attorney Mike Furnstahl. Furnstahl, according to the Star-Tribune, does not agree with the decision reached by Judge Koch and Moriarty and called Haynes’ conviction “solid.”

Ahead of the November hearing, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office made moves that signaled it would agree to drop the conviction of Haynes, including waiving the statute of limitations regarding a petition for post conviction release. There was a bill introduced in Minnesota’s legislature this past session that will allow post-conviction petitions based on new evidence that’ comes out that’s revealed more than two years after the conviction to stand instead of being automatically thrown out.

Koch’s order dropped all charges “in the interest of justice” and established that “absent introduction of the unconstitutional eyewitness identification evidence, it is doubtful there would have been sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction.” Ahead of his release, Haynes told the Star-Tribune that he would be relying on family until he could secure gainful employment and independent housing.

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by Daniel Johnson

December 14, 2023

Nikki Haley Discusses Abortion, Trans Sports, And Israel In ABC News Interview

Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley toed the line regarding her view that Trump is fit for the presidency-- just not fit for this cycle.

In a wide-ranging interview with ABC News, Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley discussed her views on abortion, trans children competing in sports with cis-heterosexual children, and Israel’s bombing of Palestinians. The interview, which aired on Dec. 11, saw Haley toe the line regarding her view that former President Donald Trump is fit for the presidency, just not fit for this cycle.

Haley hinted during the first GOP debate that were he to be selected as the Republican Party’s candidate, she would not fight her former boss’s nomination.

Haley told ABC News, “It’s not about fitness. I think he’s fit to be president. It’s ‘Should he be president?’ I don’t think he should be president. I thought he was the right president at the right time.”

Nikki Haley sits down with @LinseyDavis to discuss a wide range of topics including former Pres. Trump, the Israel-Hamas war, abortion and her life before stepping into the public eye. https://t.co/iqhjDAksEL pic.twitter.com/jojvChpVBQ
— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) December 12, 2023

Haley’s thoughts about the bombing of Palestinians were more straightforward, as she continued her campaign talking points, ignoring the consideration of a ceasefire. Haley declared that Gaza should be in the hands of Israel, saying, “Israel does not want Gaza, but they don’t want terrorists living in Gaza. So I think it needs to be a situation where the Israeli border is safe and protected and Gaza is no longer a bed for terrorists to act. And so I think we have to figure out how this is going to work.”

Haley continued, “You can’t go through something like Oct. 7 and chance that happening to your people again because Hamas has already said that they’re going back. They’re going to do it again.”

When asked about the case of Kate Cox, the 31-year-old Texas woman whose fight against the abortion policies of the state has encapsulated the debate over abortion rights, Haley was evasive and seemed uninformed about how Texas Supreme Court justices are selected.

Haley told ABC News, “I don’t know the details of the case that you’re referring to. What I can tell you is I don’t think that this issue needed to be in the hands of unelected justices. It needs to be in the hands of the people because it’s a personal issue for every woman and man.”

Haley also firmly placed herself on the side of pro-lifers, despite saying earlier that it should be up to individuals to decide if they wanted to have abortions or not, pointing out, “We’re watching states make these decisions. Some states are going more pro-life. I welcome that. Some states are going more on the choice side. I wish that wasn’t the case, but the people decide.”

Haley made extensive remarks about trans people during the interview, using the term “biological boys” to refer to trans girls, as she maintained that trans kids could play with each other if they wanted to play a sport, but not other children. Haley said, “They can find a place for trans kids to play sports, but biological boys should not be playing in girls’ sports.”

She added, “We have to remember that strong girls become strong women. Strong women become strong leaders. That doesn’t happen by putting biological boys in women’s sports. You’ve got women who have worked so hard all their life to really get to points in high school and college where they want to, and to have a biological man, who’s physiologically different, athletically, go and take that away from those women, no, we’re not gonna erase the women like that. You can’t do that. You can find other ways of dealing with this, but it doesn’t have to be on the backs of our girls, who we’re trying to make strong. It’s the wrong thing to do, and I’ll always fight against that.”

by Daniel Johnson

December 14, 2023

Lawsuit Accuses Doctors Network Hiring Initiative Of Providing Unfair Advantages Solely To Black Applicants

Contrary to Goldfarb's claims is evidence that racially concordant doctors assist in obtaining positive outcomes for their patients.

Do No Harm, a radical right-wing group incorporated in 2022 to oppose diversity equity and inclusion initiatives it observes in the healthcare field, is on the attack again. Fox News reports that the organization is suing the physician-owned partnership Vituity because Vituity’s Bridge to Brilliance Program seeks to increase representation of Black doctors, which, according to CNN, currently sits at a paltry 5.7%.

Do No Harm’s founder, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, is a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school as well as a former dean of the medical school. In September 2022 he told the New York Post, “This focus on diversity means we’re going to take someone with a certain skin color because we think they’re OK, that they can do the work. But we’re not going to look for the best and the brightest. We’re going to look for people who are just OK to make sure we have the right mixture of ethnic groups in our medical schools.”

Couple this with all that we've learned about medical racism, disparities in pain treatment, Black maternal mortality and "we been knew" how medical schools turn out doctors. This is not Stanley Goldfarb's first time at the racist rodeo. https://t.co/Eo59MZQTzE
— Portia ♍️ McGonagal (@PortiaMcGonagal) May 24, 2022

The group claims in its lawsuit that Vituity’s program violates federal law because it discriminates on the basis of race. Do No Harm, according to The Associated Press, pioneered the current wave of anti-trans legislation that is currently sweeping Republican-controlled states. In their analysis they found passages in many statehouse bills containing either identical or strikingly similar phrasing to the legislation Do No Harm got passed in Montana, Arkansas, and Iowa.

The medical community, including doctors from Goldfarb’s alma mater, roundly criticized his 2019 Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he argued, among other things, that race-based medicine is destroying the medical field.

https://twitter.com/JonMarronMD/status/1174744045853319168?t=qrKNMpZ9WucvDBFfL7CjCQ&s=19

The lawsuit, filed in a U.S. District Court under the jurisdiction of the Northern District of Florida, argues for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction before eventually making the case that Vituity’s program should receive a permanent injunction stopping them from engaging in what the lawsuit characterizes as racially discriminatory eligibility criteria for its program. Naturally, the lawsuit uses the conclusion reached by the Supreme Court in its Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case, which determined that using affirmative action in the college admissions process was a violation of the 14th Amendment.

In a statement provided to Yahoo, Goldfarb, the board chair of Do No Harm, claims to speak for Black patients, saying, “Black patients want the best doctors and the best medical care — not doctors that are racially concordant. Vituity’s Bridge to Brilliance Program, which offers physicians hiring opportunities and sign on bonuses on the basis of race, is abhorrent and rightfully illegal.”

Stanley Goldfarb not only makes a terrible argument—and is arguably an asshole for his comments—but he’s dead wrong. We know issues of justice matter to patient care, and ultimately to patient outcomes. https://t.co/vK45QVZURE #bioethics
— Nicholas G. Evans (@neva9257) September 15, 2019

Contrary to Goldfarb’s assertion is evidence that racially concordant doctors assist in obtaining positive outcomes. “Racial concordance” is the term used when a doctor and a patient’s ethnicities match. This establishes that Black doctors have an important role in obtaining positive outcomes for their Black patients. The Association of American Medical Colleges asserted in a June 2023 article that research proved that racial concordance led to improved communication, trust, and adherence to medical advice.

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by Daniel Johnson

December 14, 2023

Xavier University Receives Anonymous $50 Million Donation

The College of Osteopathic Medicine will become the nation's first Jesuit osteopathic medical school, and according to Xavier University, will address healthcare needs in Ohio and the nation.

An anonymous donor gave Xavier University $50 million, tying the previous record-high donation to the Cincinnati institution.

As the Cincinnati Business Courier reported, the gift will be used to help establish the university’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, which was already planned for development. Xavier’s president, Colleen Hanycz, said in a statement that the university’s new college represents a significant milestone for Xavier, “This historic gift will allow Xavier to take on an essential role in our nation’s primary care landscape.”

Hanycz added, “As our university approaches two centuries of intellectual, moral, and spiritual education for our students, we continue laying the foundation for a Xavier that impacts even more lives in the decades ahead. I could not be more grateful for the extraordinary generosity of this donor.”

In another first for Xavier, the College of Osteopathic Medicine will become the nation’s first Jesuit osteopathic medical school, and according to Xavier University, will address healthcare needs in Ohio and the nation. The first graduates of the program will matriculate in 2031 in a 75-person class, and Xavier plans for that number to expand to 150 students.

Xavier University Vice President for University Relations Gary Massa said that the gift reminds him of the generosity of the Cincinnati community.

“Xavier is tremendously blessed to have the support of such a humble family, whose generosity to our community cannot be overstated,” Massa said. “With President Hanycz’s leadership, we have received an unprecedented outpouring of support from people who believe in the power of Xavier and its mission. Those investing in the university today are ensuring a lasting impact for generations of future students whose lives will improve through an education rooted in Jesuit Catholic values.”

In May, trustees on the university’s board unanimously agreed to approve plans for a complex to be built on the university’s Cincinnati campus. According to Xavier’s website, osteopathic medicine “is a branch of healthcare that takes a comprehensive and holistic approach to patient care.” Doctors trained in this discipline will “undergo rigorous medical training that encompasses both traditional medical education and additional coursework in osteopathic principles and practices.”

Osteopathic medicine, according to Xavier University, is focused on not just the symptoms of a patient, but on underlying conditions or factors that may contribute to the patient’s symptoms. It does not merely treat a patient for back pain, for example, osteopathic medicine seeks to develop a comprehensive treatment plan that may include exercise or lifestyle changes with the aim of supporting the body’s ability to heal, as well as improving the overall well-being of the patient.