As I study for my OMT final, I'm going to post some of the more ridiculous quotes, here goes nothing.
First from an ACOFP Powerpoint:
OMT fixes somatic complaints so well that patients might commit suicide.
First from an ACOFP Powerpoint:
Somatizing patients who are not manifesting overt psychiatric symptoms before treatment can develop them when their somatic dysfunction is effectively resolved with OMT.
This may result because the somatic symptoms were functioning as a defense mechanism that the OMT has disabled, so that the somatization is no longer effective.
Treating somatic dysfunction may remove or significantly weakens a patients defensive position, impelling the patient to try to desperately maintain it.
The physician must be aware that if the patient is not provided with effective alternative methods of coping, in severe cases, they may be left with no other alternative but suicide.
OMT fixes somatic complaints so well that patients might commit suicide.