STATE BD. OF REGISTRATION v. GIFFEN

No. 64132.

651 S.W.2d 475 (1983)

STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION FOR THE HEALING ARTS, Appellant, v. Lawrence E. GIFFEN, D.O., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

May 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Brydon, Stephen G. Newman, Jefferson City, for appellant.

Dale C. Doerhoff, Jefferson City, for respondent.


WELLIVER, Judge.

The question in this case is whether appellant's practice of licensing as doctors of medicine (M.D.'s) those foreign medical graduates whose medical degrees do not reasonably translate into that designation denies doctors of osteopathy (D.O.'s) their right to equal protection of the laws. For the reasons that follow, we hold that it does not.

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Osteopathy is a theory of medicine. It differs from the more traditional concept...

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