If you are going to practice objective straight chiropractic, you are paying for an education you do not need. If you are going to practice therapeutic chiropractic, you are paying for an education you do not get.
Why Chiropractic is not an Alternative to MedicineThe philosophical conflict between medicine and chiropractic can be summed up simply:
Medicine believes that disease causes a lack of health.
Chiropractic believes that a lack of health causes disease.
Consequently, medicine treats disease while chiropractic addresses one of the causes for a lack of health.
Medicine and chiropractic are going in opposite directions.
An alternative is a different way of achieving the same objective or going the same direction. Hence, chiropractic cannot be an alternative to medicine.
As a profession, we do not want medical doctors adjusting vertebral subluxations but we want to treat disease.