Blog

From 2011 through 2017, after 28 years of publishing The Pivot Review, Dr. Strauss  instead began blogging thoughts and articles. We hope you are stimulated, challenged, and inspired by this collection of of over 1000 thoughts and articles.

Bureaucracy

A bureaucracy is an entity that should be under the control of the legislature but somehow it gains independence from that control and establishes itself as an authority, usually because of the lack of vigilance of the legislature or another branch of government. Bureaucracies, like the rest of the government should be responsible to the ... Read more
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Are You Hot or Cold?

The last book of the Bible, Revelation, talks about the church in the ancient city of Laodicea that was neither hot or cold. The message to this church was something they could identify with. It had become a city built up around the trade routes between east and west. The problem was that there was ... Read more
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Vocabulary or Lexicon

Vocabulary means more than having an extensive lexicon. It means to think in terms of that lexicon.
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Purpose

It is never our purpose in chiropractic to succeed at the expense of someone else, whether medicine or mixing chiropractic. But, we have the responsibility to humanity to express our  viewpoint in the arena of ideas.
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Educated Intelligence

Life is the expression of intelligence through matter. Educated life is the expression of educated intelligence through educated matter.
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Objectivity

Objectivity is not making what you think, believe or say what is right but thinking what is an objective standard is right and only that matters,  rather than your opinion. The key is having the right or correct objective standard.
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The CCE Premise and Promise.

This is as good as it will ever get in chiropractic. We will insure that if and when it gets worse, and it will, you will be minimally affected.
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Service

It’s not “well done” because you are a great speaker, a personable chiropractor, a charming individual or a prolific writer. It is well done because you are a “faithful servant.” Your faithfulness in chiropractic is or should be to the principles and the objective.
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A thought on cash practice.

In the beginning it was not difficult. There was no insurance in 1967 everyone had a cash practice. I believe the average fee was four dollars when I began in practice. I began a box on the wall fee system, after all how much less than four bucks could someone drop in the box. The ... Read more
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Energy or Force

Energy/matter-the term coined by Claude, is really energy which has been created by a chemical change in the matter. Activity in the body is really the result of turning chemicals or food into energy by use of instructions/information/innate forces. Energy then, cannot be the same as force.
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