The Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA) November 8-12 in Washington, D.C. will have three full sessions dedicated to chiropractic topics.
The APHA meeting is the largest public health gathering in the world, attended by as many as 15,000 leaders in national, international, state, and local health care, as well as representatives from all levels of government. Over 500 DCs are now members of APHA.
The three chiropractic session topics are: "Chiropractic Perspectives on Public Health Policies, Practices, and Issues"; "Chiropractic Perspectives on Immunization"; and "Topics in Chiropractic." Featured speakers will include: Christine M.H. Goertz, D.C.; Arnold Cianciulli, D.C.; Alan H. Adams, D.C., MSEd; William C. Meeker, D.C., MPH; Daniel Hansen, D.C., FICC; Reed Phillips, D.C., DACBR, Ph.D.; Walter I. Wardwell, Ph.D.; and Joanne Nyiendo, Ph.D.
For more information on how to join APHA or regarding the Annual Meeting contact Dr. Herbert Vear at (416) 831-9221, Dr. Rand Baird at (310) 373-2225, or Carrie McLachlan, M.P.A. at (612) 888-4777.
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.
On Feb. 1, 2024, two more legislators – John R. Carter (R-Texas) and Robert “Bob” Good (R-Va.) – co-sponsored the Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2023, bringing the co-sponsor total to 155, two more than the total achieved over the entire two-year congressional cycle in which identical legislation last appeared (2021-22).
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.
