After careful investigation and consideration, the Alabama Board of Chiropractic Examiners denied approval of the Vertebral Subluxation Research Institute's Outreach 2000 program. In a letter mailed by the board to all Alabama licensed chiropractors, the board instructed all DCs currently involved in the program to "...cease and desist this activity immediately."
This is an issue that many state boards are currently wrestling with. While Alabama is the first to outlaw the VSRI program, it is very possible that other state boards will follow suit. Anyone who may be considering this type of marketing program should contact their state board for an official ruling before getting involved.
Editor's note: Many chiropractors have contacted Dynamic Chiropractic to complain about this activity taking place in their area. There have been statements that this tarnishes the image of the chiropractic profession as well as the general overall concern that this constitutes illegal patient solicitation.
If you feel strongly that this type of patient solicitation should not occur in your state for these or other reasons, you may wish to contact your state board and give them your opinion on this issue. Remember, they are there to serve you and your profession in your state, as well as protect the general public. The reputation of chiropractic, pure and without reproach in your state is your responsibility.
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.
