Philosophytag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1250480%ISSUE_DATE%T09:25:32-07:00Information on the ideas, new and old, that are the foundation of alternative health care.TypePadWe Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-557282012-01-29T12:00:32-07:002012-01-29T12:00:07-07:00Foundation Ad Rejected by Medical Journals: No Surprise; Why Am I Still Struggling? Let's Use Wikipedia to Our Advantage.Foundation Ad Rejected by Medical Journals: No Surprise; Why Am I Still Struggling? Let's Use Wikipedia to Our Advantage.We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-557142012-01-15T12:00:32-07:002012-01-15T12:00:07-07:00When It Comes to Insurance, You Have a Choice; An Insider's Look at Managed Care.When It Comes to Insurance, You Have a Choice; An Insider's Look at Managed Care.We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-556702011-12-16T12:00:32-07:002011-12-16T12:00:07-07:00Prescription Rights Will Not Give Us Integrity; Arguments Don't Hold Water.Prescription Rights Will Not Give Us Integrity; Arguments Don't Hold Water.We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-556462011-12-02T12:00:32-07:002011-12-02T12:00:07-07:00We Must Agree to Disagree on Certain Issues; Your Articles Make Me Laugh; Change Is Necessary; To Tier or Not to Tier?We Must Agree to Disagree on Certain Issues; Your Articles Make Me Laugh; Change Is Necessary; To Tier or Not to Tier?We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-556302011-11-18T12:00:32-07:002011-11-18T12:00:07-07:00Damaging Words From a Poor Source; We All Need to Be Accountable for Our Food Choices; It's My Decision What I Eat, Not the Government's.Damaging Words From a Poor Source; We All Need to Be Accountable for Our Food Choices; It's My Decision What I Eat, Not the Government's.Post-Wilk: Is Our Future Secure?tag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-556232011-11-18T12:00:32-07:002011-11-18T12:00:07-07:00In its 11-and-a-half decades of existence, the chiropractic profession has faced formidable challenges. From the jailing of founder D.D. Palmer to the vicious attacks by the AMA, only the resolve of courageous practitioners and the patients they served carried the day.By Christopher Kent, DC, Esq.In its 11-and-a-half decades of existence, the chiropractic profession has faced formidable challenges. From the jailing of founder D.D. Palmer to the vicious attacks by the AMA, only the resolve of courageous practitioners and the patients they served carried the day.We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-556142011-11-04T12:00:32-07:002011-11-04T12:00:07-07:00Why Do Chiropractors Eat Their Young? by Kimberly Conn, DC, Oshkosh, Wisc.Why Do Chiropractors Eat Their Young? by Kimberly Conn, DC, Oshkosh, Wisc.We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-555892011-10-21T12:00:32-07:002011-10-21T12:00:07-07:00Getting Involved Isn't the Solution: We Need a Paradigm ShiftGetting Involved Isn't the Solution: We Need a Paradigm ShiftWe Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-555742011-10-07T12:00:32-07:002011-10-07T12:00:07-07:00Auditing Your Medicare Article; A More Suitable Name for High-Velocity Manipulation? Why Pharmaceutical Privileges Won't Harm Your Practice; How Can We Truly Serve the Public by Adding Drugs?Auditing Your Medicare Article; A More Suitable Name for High-Velocity Manipulation? Why Pharmaceutical Privileges Won't Harm Your Practice; How Can We Truly Serve the Public by Adding Drugs?Primary Spine Care Doctors?tag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-555642011-10-07T12:00:32-07:002011-10-07T12:00:07-07:00"It is widely recognized that the dramatic increase in health care costs in the United States has not led to a corresponding improvement in the health care experience of patients or the clinical outcomes of medical care. In no area of medicine is this more true than in the area of spine-related disorders."By Editorial Staff"It is widely recognized that the dramatic increase in health care costs in the United States has not led to a corresponding improvement in the health care experience of patients or the clinical outcomes of medical care. In no area of medicine is this more true than in the area of spine-related disorders."We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-555572011-09-23T12:00:32-07:002011-09-23T12:00:07-07:00We Get Letters and E-Mail: We Need Change and We Need It Now; Where We Should Be Going.We Get Letters and E-Mail: We Need Change and We Need It Now; Where We Should Be Going.Drugs and Chiropractic: Exposing the Red Herring and the Trojan Horsetag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-555442011-09-23T12:00:32-07:002011-09-23T12:00:07-07:00In my opinion, for some time, the pro-drug forces within the chiropractic profession have repeatedly told untruths in an attempt to gain support for their pro-drug position. These untruths include the claim that they only want authority to prescribe drugs so they can take patients off medications, and the claim that doctors of chiropractic could lose the right to offer nutritional supplements if we do not have the authority to prescribe drugs. But the biggest two lies they repeatedly tell are what I call the "red herring" and the "Trojan horse," and it's time to expose both.By James Edwards, DCIn my opinion, for some time, the pro-drug forces within the chiropractic profession have repeatedly told untruths in an attempt to gain support for their pro-drug position. These untruths include the claim that they only want authority to prescribe drugs so they can take patients off medications, and the claim that doctors of chiropractic could lose the right to offer nutritional supplements if we do not have the authority to prescribe drugs. But the biggest two lies they repeatedly tell are what I call the "red herring" and the "Trojan horse," and it's time to expose both.We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-555242011-09-09T12:00:32-07:002011-09-09T12:00:07-07:00Multidisciplinary Care: Great Opportunities Are Out There; National Chiropractic Unity: All Too Similar to American Politics? What's Wrong With a Water Pik? Focus on the Fascia: Thanks for the Reminder; Delivering Confident Care.Multidisciplinary Care: Great Opportunities Are Out There; National Chiropractic Unity: All Too Similar to American Politics? What's Wrong With a Water Pik? Focus on the Fascia: Thanks for the Reminder; Delivering Confident Care.Who Are You? Who, Who, Who, Who?tag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-555152011-09-09T12:00:32-07:002011-09-09T12:00:07-07:00Beyond the title, this isn't an homage to The Who. This discussion is prompted by an advertisement I received in the mail. It was from an organization with a fancy-sounding name. I'm not about to advertise for the group, so I'll make up a new name. I'll call the organization The Great Doctors Foundation. The foundation exists to help doctors snag a piece of the Affordable Care Act (also known as "health care reform") money. The advertisement was all about how the foundation would teach doctors the ways to change their practice to make it easy to get access to all that extra money that health care reform was going to make available for people who were smart enough to properly use the systems created by the Affordable Care Act. Given the complexity of the legislation, most doctors will not read the law, so the foundation may seem like a godsend.By Stephen M. Perle, DC, MSBeyond the title, this isn't an homage to The Who. This discussion is prompted by an advertisement I received in the mail. It was from an organization with a fancy-sounding name. I'm not about to advertise for the group, so I'll make up a new name. I'll call the organization The Great Doctors Foundation. The foundation exists to help doctors snag a piece of the Affordable Care Act (also known as "health care reform") money. The advertisement was all about how the foundation would teach doctors the ways to change their practice to make it easy to get access to all that extra money that health care reform was going to make available for people who were smart enough to properly use the systems created by the Affordable Care Act. Given the complexity of the legislation, most doctors will not read the law, so the foundation may seem like a godsend.We Get Letters & E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-555002011-08-26T12:00:32-07:002011-08-26T12:00:07-07:00Don't Look to Insurers to Help Reduce Health Care Costs; Focusing on Weak Muscles; We Need More Great DCs, Not More Mediocre Ones.Don't Look to Insurers to Help Reduce Health Care Costs; Focusing on Weak Muscles; We Need More Great DCs, Not More Mediocre Ones.Seeing Around the Corner: Drugs Will Harm Your Practicetag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-554892011-08-26T12:00:32-07:002011-08-26T12:00:07-07:00Donald Petersen Jr., publisher of Dynamic Chiropractic, recently opined [see "Really?" in the March 12 issue] that embracing ineffective and dangerous drugs when chiropractic has been proven to be so tremendously effective "is like a person waiting for their fiancee, whose flight is supposed to arrive at the airport at 5 p.m., and when they find out the flight has been delayed, start looking for a prostitute to marry." Perhaps there has never been a better analogy. Chiropractic owns the "crown jewel," proven treatment, but a small group of DCs is now willing to abandon it and collectively marry a drug "prostitute."By James Edwards, DCDonald Petersen Jr., publisher of Dynamic Chiropractic, recently opined [see "Really?" in the March 12 issue] that embracing ineffective and dangerous drugs when chiropractic has been proven to be so tremendously effective "is like a person waiting for their fiancee, whose flight is supposed to arrive at the airport at 5 p.m., and when they find out the flight has been delayed, start looking for a prostitute to marry." Perhaps there has never been a better analogy. Chiropractic owns the "crown jewel," proven treatment, but a small group of DCs is now willing to abandon it and collectively marry a drug "prostitute."Avoiding the Mistakes Our Fathers (and Mothers) Madetag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-554722011-08-12T12:00:32-07:002011-08-12T12:00:07-07:00It was almost exactly 23 years ago that the most sincere effort to merge the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) and the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) failed. Blame can be funneled in many directions, but while the final vote resulted in the majority of ICA members (56 percent) voting in favor of the merger, ICA bylaws required a two-thirds vote to allow the merger to take place.By Donald M. Petersen Jr., BS, HCD(hc), FICC(h), PublisherIt was almost exactly 23 years ago that the most sincere effort to merge the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) and the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) failed. Blame can be funneled in many directions, but while the final vote resulted in the majority of ICA members (56 percent) voting in favor of the merger, ICA bylaws required a two-thirds vote to allow the merger to take place.We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-554652011-07-29T12:00:32-07:002011-07-29T12:00:07-07:00Our Problem Is What We Offer, Not What We Don't; If We Do Not Move Forward, We Will Die as a Profession.Our Problem Is What We Offer, Not What We Don't; If We Do Not Move Forward, We Will Die as a Profession.We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-554292011-07-15T12:00:32-07:002011-07-15T12:00:07-07:00Our Problem Is the Product, Not the Buyer or Seller. I can explain to you the problem of increasingly low enrollments in chiropractic education, and I can do it for a lot less than the $100,000 dollars Foot Levelers and Standard Process have paid to the Widmeyer Group to figure this out. I'll take half as much. [Read "Growing the Future: The Chiropractic Education Foundation" in the June 3 issue for background.]Our Problem Is the Product, Not the Buyer or Seller. I can explain to you the problem of increasingly low enrollments in chiropractic education, and I can do it for a lot less than the $100,000 dollars Foot Levelers and Standard Process have paid to the Widmeyer Group to figure this out. I'll take half as much. [Read "Growing the Future: The Chiropractic Education Foundation" in the June 3 issue for background.]We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-554202011-07-01T12:00:32-07:002011-07-01T12:00:07-07:00The Window of Opportunity Is Open; New Car-Seat Safety Guidelines; Overlooking a Major Finding?The Window of Opportunity Is Open; New Car-Seat Safety Guidelines; Overlooking a Major Finding?We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-553942011-06-17T12:00:32-07:002011-06-17T12:00:07-07:00We Get Letters and E-Mail - Look at the Possibilities; Our Authority in the Health Care System Is VanishingWe Get Letters and E-Mail - Look at the Possibilities; Our Authority in the Health Care System Is VanishingFSCO Announces Name Change, Extends Reach Internationallytag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-553812011-06-03T12:00:32-07:002011-06-03T12:00:07-07:00The Board of Directors of the Federation of Straight Chiropractors and Organizations (FSCO) recently voted to extend their efforts to support straight chiropractors around the world. This is significant because FSCO is currently the only national organization to promote the location, analysis, and correction of vertebral subluxation as a sole rationale for chiropractic care and as a singular practice objective. The decision will make them the only international or national organization of its kind.The Board of Directors of the Federation of Straight Chiropractors and Organizations (FSCO) recently voted to extend their efforts to support straight chiropractors around the world. This is significant because FSCO is currently the only national organization to promote the location, analysis, and correction of vertebral subluxation as a sole rationale for chiropractic care and as a singular practice objective. The decision will make them the only international or national organization of its kind.We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-553772011-06-03T12:00:32-07:002011-06-03T12:00:07-07:00We Get Letters and E-Mail: Another Treatment Option for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy; "Heart of a Chiropractor, Intellect of a Scientist"; To Whom Are We Trying to Prove the Efficacy of Chiropractic?We Get Letters and E-Mail: Another Treatment Option for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy; "Heart of a Chiropractor, Intellect of a Scientist"; To Whom Are We Trying to Prove the Efficacy of Chiropractic?We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-553342011-05-20T12:00:32-07:002011-05-20T12:00:07-07:00We Get Letters and E-Mail: The Advantage of Offering a Widening Scope of Services; Thanks to the ICA; Sorry to See CCC-LA Go; Aligning and Realigning; A Leap in Logic.We Get Letters and E-Mail: The Advantage of Offering a Widening Scope of Services; Thanks to the ICA; Sorry to See CCC-LA Go; Aligning and Realigning; A Leap in Logic.We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-553182011-05-06T12:00:32-07:002011-05-06T12:00:07-07:00Our Worst Enemy Comes From Within; Advanced Practice: Breaking Ground or Building a Ditch? Steroids and Crohn's Disease? More on Medicare Billing.Our Worst Enemy Comes From Within; Advanced Practice: Breaking Ground or Building a Ditch? Steroids and Crohn's Disease? More on Medicare Billing.The Profession Formerly Known as Chiropractictag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-553102011-05-06T12:00:32-07:002011-05-06T12:00:07-07:00As reported in this publication last month, the Council on Chiropractic Education has released its revised accreditation standards, which go into effect in 2012. The 2012 Standards were approved by unanimous vote. In a press release, the CCE stated that "the 2012 Standards provide the DC programs with much greater flexibility in designing curricula and clinical experiences to achieve the required metacompetencies and clinical outcomes" to prepare students "for entry into chiropractic practice as a primary care chiropractic physician." Conspicuously absent are references to vertebral subluxation or acknowledgment that chiropractic is a drugless profession.By Christopher Kent, DC, Esq.As reported in this publication last month, the Council on Chiropractic Education has released its revised accreditation standards, which go into effect in 2012. The 2012 Standards were approved by unanimous vote. In a press release, the CCE stated that "the 2012 Standards provide the DC programs with much greater flexibility in designing curricula and clinical experiences to achieve the required metacompetencies and clinical outcomes" to prepare students "for entry into chiropractic practice as a primary care chiropractic physician." Conspicuously absent are references to vertebral subluxation or acknowledgment that chiropractic is a drugless profession.We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-552832011-04-22T12:00:32-07:002011-04-22T12:00:07-07:00We Get Letters and E-Mail: Chiropractic Pharmacotherapy Is Here and It's Not Going Away; Be Careful What You Ask For.We Get Letters and E-Mail: Chiropractic Pharmacotherapy Is Here and It's Not Going Away; Be Careful What You Ask For.The Rules Have Changedtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-552822011-04-22T12:00:32-07:002011-04-22T12:00:07-07:00It can be easy to get into a rut, get used to "the way things are" and just keep on practicing the way we have since first hanging out our shingle. Human nature often seeks the path of least resistance – to just "go with the flow." As chiropractors, that type of thinking is professional suicide. We cannot afford to be complacent, comfortable or just "status quo."By Douglas R. Briggs, DC, Dipl. Ac. (IAMA), DAAPMIt can be easy to get into a rut, get used to "the way things are" and just keep on practicing the way we have since first hanging out our shingle. Human nature often seeks the path of least resistance – to just "go with the flow." As chiropractors, that type of thinking is professional suicide. We cannot afford to be complacent, comfortable or just "status quo."We Get Letters and E-Mailtag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-552622011-04-09T12:00:32-07:002011-04-09T12:00:07-07:00Chiropractic Boards Should Determine Scope of Practice; What the Recent Noridian Policy Really Illustrates.Chiropractic Boards Should Determine Scope of Practice; What the Recent Noridian Policy Really Illustrates.First, Do No Harm: Do Things the Hard Waytag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-552612011-04-09T12:00:32-07:002011-04-09T12:00:07-07:00The Hippocratic Oath is thought to have been established by Hippocrates some 2,500 years ago. It is an oath that was taken by doctors for centuries until it was abandoned by many medical schools in the 1870s.By Donald M. Petersen Jr., BS, HCD(hc), FICC(h), PublisherThe Hippocratic Oath is thought to have been established by Hippocrates some 2,500 years ago. It is an oath that was taken by doctors for centuries until it was abandoned by many medical schools in the 1870s.