The California Chiropractic Foundation (CCF) has scheduled two Winter Conferences, one February 1-2 in Burlingame and the other February 29-March 1 in Los Angeles. The topics will be "DCs for the 90s: Industrial Ergonomic Specialists" and "Personal Injury: Taking the Lead."
Speakers will include Howard J. Ross, medical management consultant; Matthew Rosenstein, D.C., certified safety engineer; Christopher Weston, D.C. and Garrett Casey, D.C., both personal injury workers' compensation experts. The personal injury portion of the conference will feature a live arbitration, moderated by Shawn Steel, personal injury attorney.
Non-CCA members will be able to attend the CCF Winter Conference in Los Angeles at the member rate.
For more information, please contact the CCF at (916) 387-0177.
FCER Collaborates with NIH
The Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have begun a collaboration on several issues.
President of Western States Chiropractic College (WSCC), in Portland, Oregon, Dr. William H. Dallas, was named "Executive of the Year" by the Executive Women International organization.
New Palmer Dean of Clinics
Dr. Garry T. Krakos has been named the Dean of Clinics at Palmer College. In this position, Dr. Krakos will assume responsibility for overall management of all four Palmer Chiropractic Clinics located in both Iowa and Illinois.
Dr. Krakos is a 1979 graduate of Palmer College. He is an assistant professor in the clinic, and has been a member of the Palmer faculty since 1985.
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.
