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By The DO Staff

03.15.26

AOA Trustee Joshua Lenchus, DO, grew up imagining a future in medicine, but no one in his family worked in healthcare. Like many first-generation DOs, his understanding of medicine was shaped more by what he read or heard than by familiarity via a physician family member. When he first explored medical school, what he understood most was allopathic medicine and the MD initials that followed, like many people. Osteopathic medicine wasn’t on his radar—until his parents reminded him of something he had forgotten. As a child, after an injury he had been treated by an osteopathic general surgeon. That memory became a quiet turning point.

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