Two doctors of chiropractic with considerable service experience within the chiropractic profession have been elected to key positions outside of chiropractic that could pay big dividends. Dr. N. Ray Tuck Jr. has been elected president of the Virginia Board of Medicine and Dr. Joseph Brimhall has been elected to the board of directors of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
Dr. Tuck assumes the presidency of the Board of Medicine after being appointed to the board for two terms by the Va. governor – serving as the only chiropractor on the 18-member board that includes 14 health care providers spanning various medical disciplines and three public members.
After serving as vice president in 2018, Dr. Tuck will now lead the board, which a Virginia Chiropractic Association press release describes as overseeing "competent patient care through licensing of healthcare professionals, guiding and enforcing standards of practice, and educating practitioners and the public on key healthcare matters." He is also a former president of the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) and the Virginia Chiropractic Association (VCA).
Dr. Brimhall, newly elected member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation's board of directors, is also the president of the University of Western States. He is the first chiropractor elected to the board and will serve a three-year term. He joins the board after a career rich in educational service, not only with UWS, but also the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, Council on Chiropractic Education, Council on Chiropractic Education Canada and Councils on Chiropractic Education International.
According to a Western States announcement, "CHEA is an association of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities and recognizes 60 institutional and programmatic accrediting organizations. ... recognition by CHEA affirms that the standards, structures, and practices of accrediting organizations promote academic quality, improvement, accountability, and needed flexibility and innovation in the institutions or programs they accredit."
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.
