"The truth is that ASHN is only about making money"
Dear Editor:
I was amused and saddened by your interview with George DeVries in the March 6th issue. Having practiced for 10 years in California, I was forced to resign from the CCA because of the very corruption of our officers that your interview alluded to. To this day, I warn my friends in other states to watch out for them and their tactics in state associations.
This is not a healthy or good group of people. No matter how they may spin the truth, the truth is that ASHN is only about making money.
Sherwin Kahn,DC
Healdsburg, California
Dear Editor:
In response to the commentary about "unexpected positive nonmusculoskeletal side effects" in the February 21st issue, I noticed that as the number of adjustments increased, so did the percentage of patients who reported a positive reaction. For example, you reported that only 15% of patients reported a positive reaction when only one spinal area was adjusted. You also reported that the percentage went up to 35% when four spinal areas were adjusted.
I would like to offer the possibility that the percentage went up not because of the extra care, but because the main single subluxation was more likely to finally get adjusted, albeit with the hit-and -miss method, when more segments were thrusted upon. If so, wouldn't it be better if the chiropractor would find and adjust only the main one, and leave the other three segments alone?
John Hart,DC
Greenville, South Carolina
johnhartdc@yahoo.com
I continue to be appalled at the advertising you allow and still degrade those in the profession who bend the line of ethics. I am referring (as only an example) to the March 6 issue, page 7. This is the absolute worst thing I have ever seen any professional journal publish. The person who wrote it, the person that accepted it and the person that published it...should be ashamed. I hope they add it to their portfolio.
It is offensive to my profession and me as a person. Please, please, please think just a second before you run something like this again. Thanks for your consideration.
Patrick Thomas, DC
Corpus Christi, Texas
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.
