At its annual council meeting in Budapest, the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) elected a new executive featuring Dr. J. Michael Flynn as president. The complete WFC executive committee, elected for two-year terms, includes the following:
"It is truly an honor and privileged to have been elected president," said Dr. Flynn, a former president of the Chiropractic Association of Louisiana and Louisiana State Board of Examiners, "especially given the outstanding presidents who have served before me, most recently my friend and colleague Dr. Stathis Papadopoulos, whose contribution has been immense." With Flynn's election as president, Papadopoulos concludes his service as president and is now serving as past president.
Dr. Flynn has served on the WFC executive committee since 2004, first as secretary-treasurer and then as first vice president prior to being elected president. He is a current board member of the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress and member of the Parker College of Chiropractic board of trustees.
New NYCC Master's Program Receives State Approval
New York Chiropractic College's (NYCC) Master of Science in Human Anatomy and Physiology Instruction has been approved by the New York State Education Department and will commence in January of next year. The primarily online curriculum (a one-week intensive teaching practicum will be held at the NYCC Seneca Falls campus) is designed ideally for "doctors of chiropractic, other advanced health-care degree holders, and biologists with graduate degrees," according to the college.
"The MSHAPI approach is unique," said Dr. Michael Mestan, executive vice president of academic affairs. "It starts with a student already educated in anatomy and physiology course content and builds on that foundation, creating a highly trained instructional specialist for the undergraduate anatomy and physiology lecture room and laboratory."
To learn more, e-mail Kim McCrea, NYCC admissions counselor for graduate programs, at kmccrea@nycc.edu.
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.
