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Never having participated in Medicare I am unfamiliar with all the “ins and outs” of the program. I am continually getting emails, calls, and letters from people telling me that I cannot take care of Medicare practice members without being part of and billing Medicare. It’s interesting that we have a health care bill now ... Read more

In an ongoing effort to figure out the problems that confront the chiropractic profession, I was struck by an ad I saw in my local newspaper. It was placed by a chiropractor who has been relatively successful in the profession for well over 20 years, not someone desperate to build a practice. The photo in ... Read more

For some people, being in practice for 20, 30, or 40 years burns them out. Actually I have found that it is usually less than 20 years, but they stay in practice until they can find something else to do (like be a practice management consultant or go on the speaking circuit.) Others can be ... Read more

Okay, now that I’ve got your attention, let me tell you what I really think; research is the greatest threat to the future of chiropractic! I know that thinking will not make a lot of chiropractors happy. I probably will lose a few of my remaining friends, something I really cannot afford but I have ... Read more

One of the things that always seems to be a problem among chiropractors, especially those that are leaning (not there, but leaning) toward objective chiropractic, is our unwillingness to bash medicine and to get involved in tangential issues like unnecessary surgeries, drugging school children, fluoridation, vaccination and so on.  There are so many issues of ... Read more

The beginning of every new year is rife with prophecies about the coming year.  While they are often interesting to read, no one really pays too much attention to them, which is good because most never come true or they are really only generalities.  I believe that there has not been a legitimate prophecy since ... Read more

The editor of The Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research has recently written a very interesting article concerning the status of our profession with regard to public acceptance of chiropractic titled “What Paradigm Shift?”  He says that most of the speakers at a “chiropractic pep rally” are telling us “the public wants what we have to ... Read more

Recently, an Objective Straight Chiropractic (OSC) antagonist who has a good understanding of objective straight chiropractic philosophy wanted to know what our vision was. It got me thinking, “Where would we like to go with this profession?” In a real sense, we have no vision, no clear picture of where we would like to see ... Read more

With the upcoming presidential and congressional election a good deal of attention within the chiropractic profession has been focused on who are the better candidates for the chiropractic profession. I think we are terribly selfish as a profession if we judge who is best to serve the country by who is best for our profession. ... Read more

The economic, political, and philosophical factors that impact upon chiropractic seem to be almost endless. They create much discussion and unfortunately much animosity within the profession. Perhaps no single issue among straight chiropractors brings these factors together more than the subject of payment for services. The political aspect of it is, without doubt, the primary ... Read more