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Chiropractic Education verses Medical Education

Chiropractors are still trying to compare chiropractic education with medical education despite the fact that it is like comparing apples with oranges.  All our efforts do is strengthen the misconception that chiropractic is an alternative to medicine, and in most situations, we come off looking like a second-rate alternative.  A recent article in Dynamic Chiropractor … Read more

Diagnosis versus Monitoring Innate

There is considerable confusion within the so-called straight chiropractic community over the issue of doing tests that are traditionally of a diagnostic nature and ordinarily performed by a medical doctor.  There is no question that there is an historical basis for straight chiropractors doing procedures like taking blood pressure, looking into the eyes and ears … Read more

Caring and Confronting

For some reason, confrontational people are often perceived as uncaring and even cruel.  Society has somehow come to the conclusion that to challenge people or to confront their attitude, thinking or behavior is at best unkind.  Perhaps that is a function of a society that is more and more rejecting absolutes.  If there are no … Read more

Education's Vision

Sadly, the least amount of vision within our profession is the place that it should be the greatest — our educational institutions.  Throughout history, in almost every walk of life, education has always been the place where visionaries came from.  Within the colleges should reside the thinkers, the visionaries who present the ideas to a … Read more

The Objective Straight Chiropractic Vision for Chiropractic

I believe that the vision for chiropractic is as different as the number of people who practice it.  However, most straight chiropractic practitioners have a very similar vision.  Our vision is regular chiropractic care for every member of the human race from birth until death.  Differences only occur with regard to the technique employed in … Read more