Support of F4CP Continues With Latest Donations
The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress continues to receive impressive monetary support from the profession, as evidenced by recent donations by Performance Health ($25,000; overall contribution of $242,630), Dee Cee Laboratories ($20,000; $60,000 overall) and the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners ($10,000; $27,500 overall). Comments by leaders of the three organizations emphasize the value of the foundation and its ongoing PR efforts:
Walter Reed Honors Dr. William Morgan
In a ceremony held in late May, William E. Morgan received the Master Clinician's Award from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for his contributions over the years. According to Dr. Morgan, who is credentialed at Walter Reed, serves as a consultant to various U.S. government executive health clinics in Washington, D.C., and has served as a consultant to the White House, the Veterans Administration, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army, only 4 percent of the providers at Walter Reed have received this award, which honors "significant contributions in the fields of patient care, research, scholarly writing, teaching and productivity."
Recognizing 40 Years of Public-Health Activism
Dr. Rand Baird has been recognized by the American Public Health Association for 40 years of membership in the organization. Dr. Baird, who played an invaluable role in bringing the Chiropractic Health Care section of the APHA to fruition, currently chairs the Public Health Committee and Associate Member Committee of the WFC. To learn more about his involvement in chiropractic and the APHA over the years, see our Q&A with Dr. Baird in this issue.
According to multiple legal sources, a New Jersey appeals court has reversed the 2012 judgment that awarded Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company $3.96 million. Defendants in the case, including chiropractors Dr. Daniel Dahan and J. Scott Neuner, were accused of "creating a dummy medical corporation to misrepresent a chiropractic facility as a physician-owned medical center." The appeals court, however, ruled that the defendants did not intentionally violate state law in establishing the DC-MD business partnership. For background, read our 2012 article in DC: "Allstate Insurance Fraud Case Finally Yields Judgment" (News in Brief, Nov. 18, 2012 issue, second brief).
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.
