Texas Governor George W. Bush was the honored guest at a recent fundraiser for Texas Republican candidate Suzanna Gratia Hupp, DC, who is running in an open seat race for Texas House of Representatives, District 54. The governor was there to lend his support for Dr. Hupp's candidacy.
Suzanna, 36, is a 1985 graduate of Texas Chiropractic College, and owner of Cove Chiropractic Clinic. (See "Two DCs and a Chiropractic Advocate Seek Support in Political Races" in the 10-21-96 issue).
For more information on Dr. Gratia-Hupp's campaign, call 1-800-556-9211. Contributions may be made to:
Suzanna Gratia-Hupp
For Texas House of Reps., District 54
P.O. Box 273
Kempner, TX 76539
(512) 556-2436
Barnes and Nobles is offering through its "Books by Mail" a sale price on the hard cover version of The Serpent on the Staff: The Unhealthy Politics of the AMA by Chicago Sun-Times reporters Howard Wolinsky and Tom Brune. The book, which details the inside workings of the AMA, got mass media attention when it was released in 1994. The book includes a chapter that chronicles the AMA's campaign against chiropractic.
Howard Wolinsky, medical writer at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1981, and Tom Brune, investigative reporter and editor at the Sun-Times since 1983, have written a book that is not only of interest to chiropractors, but to a broad spectrum of Americans.
Serpent on the Staff was the first independent investigative book about the medical establishment that was directed at the general public since journalist James Rorty wrote American Medicine Mobilized in 1939.
The $5.98 sale price for the hard cover is less than you would pay for the softcover version in the local bookstore. It's crucial reading. The catalog number is A134079. All you have to do is call 1-800-THE-BOOK.
Dr. John Mostrando (center) with the World Vision group in Ecuador.
Through World Vision, an organization which sponsors poor children, Dr. John Mostrando traveled to Las Rocas, a rural village in Ecuador, to bring chiropractic care to the small, impoverished community. With some help from interpreters, Dr. Mostrando treated a myriad of conditions ranging from ruptured disks, to a man who had been gored by a bull. When Dr. Mostrando traveled to treat patients in various villages, patients expressed their gratitude. One village chose to thank him by roasting the local delicacy: a guinea pig. Any chiropractor interested in contacting World Vision should call 1-800-777-5777.
Many relevant diagnostic signs are not performed deliberately by the examiner or by the patient at the examiner’s direction. They are observed as the patient reacts to their condition. Fortin’s finger sign, Minor’s sign, and Vanzetti’s sign are three examples of this principle.
Spearheaded by burgeoning scientific and clinical research literature, psychedelics have reached a level of media coverage and popular interest that has not been seen for over half a century. By “psychedelics,” we are referring to the unique class of substances that includes psilocybin (the active compound found in so-called “magic mushrooms”), LSD, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ayahuasca, 5-MeO-DMT, and mescaline – each of which occurs in the natural world (except for LSD, which is a semi-synthetic compound).
While working at the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, N.M., one of the primary care physicians stated that imaging every patient prior to receiving chiropractic was not medically necessary. It was at that point I reconsidered the need for the imaging of every patient to avoid malpractice.
