Los Angeles College of Chiropractic hosted the 6th annual meeting for directors of admissions and financial aid, March 7-9. Representatives from most of the accredited CCE chiropractic colleges in the United States and Canada were present.
Financial aid directors discussed the impact of the Bush administrations' 1992 budget proposal to discontinue the HEAL program through which many chiropractic students receive federal educational loans. The HPSL program slated to replace HEAL excludes chiropractic.
The directors formulated and sent letters to the presidents of the 14 chiropractic colleges in the United States to offer their unanimous support in opposition to the federal loan fiasco.
The directors developed several recommendations for amendments to the current HEAL regulations: allot a one year automatic deferment of loan repayment in addition to the nine month grace period following graduation. Due to inconsistent eligibility requirements and dates for state boards, graduates are not always allowed enough time to take boards, receive licensure, and begin practicing before their loans become due. A one year deferment would solve this problem and result in a decrease in payment delinquency.
A second recommendation was to offer state boards while the student is still in school. The current grace period of nine months would then be sufficient; the graduate would leave school ready to seek employment.
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.
