The Senate Appropriations Committee has directed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other related agencies covered by Appropriations Act (H.R. 2707) to "include a significantly larger number of chiropractors and other health care providers on all current and future advisory boards, commissions, and peer review panels."
The report language appears in Title II of H.R. 2702 under the "National Institutes of Health" section. H.R. 2707 is the appropriations bill which funds HHS. The HHS fiscal 1991 budget was $486 billion; the 1992 budget is projected at $525 billion.
The introduction of this language in the Senate Appropriations Committee's report is the "direct result of our work with Senator Harkin (D-Iowa) and key members of his appropriations committee staff," said Richard Miller, director of governmental relations for the American Chiropractic Association (ACA).
"While not having the force of law, the report language is a clear directive to the department to take action in response to the committee's desires," Richard Miller said.
"If the department is unresponsive to this directive, we will be able to return to the committee next year and make a good case to have the directive included as statutory language having the full force of law," Mr. Miller concluded.
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.
