Philosophy

Another thing that always amazes me is how chiropractors can abandon objective straight, non-therapeutic chiropractic and return to practicing in the medical model.  I can understand someone moving from therapeutic chiropractic to straight chiropractic.  After all, we have all come that route, whether it was the medical model taught in chiropractic school or by way … Read more

The following is an article for lay people.  Feel free to use it with your practice members. Two Questions When a person with any type of symptom enters a chiropractic office for the first time, there are two questions that person needs to consider for the chiropractor to be sure that the person understands the … Read more

Why is it that even the so-called subluxation-based chiropractors cannot seem to focus on just correcting subluxation because they are, in and of themselves, a detriment to the proper function of the human organism?  Forget the broad scope chiropractor, who believes that chiropractic is part of the practice of medicine.  Most of them have already … Read more

There is no piece of literature that is taken out of context more frequently than the Bible.  I know I am always amazed when someone takes something I have written out of its proper context and uses it to either confirm something they think or to criticize me.  God is a lot more gracious than … Read more

It never ceases to amaze me how science can create terms, and because they have created them somehow people accept them and the ideas that they convey without so much as a hint of skepticism.  Yet, if we use a term like “innate intelligence” or even “intelligent design” the scientists go into some kind of … Read more

Recently a friend of mine wrote an article in a national publication on the value of mentoring.  I have great respect for this chiropractor but have some differences of opinion on the merits of mentoring.  He says that young chiropractors should seek out a “seasoned, experienced” chiropractor as a mentor, that these “chiropractors are willing … Read more

It always amazes me how peoples’ perspectives can be so distorted that they fail to see their faults and shortcomings and instead ascribe them to others.  Nowhere is it more obvious than with those chiropractors who call themselves “progressive,” who want to see chiropractic evolve away from its traditional roots and are critical of the … Read more

Why is it that chiropractic philosophers do not seem to have a fear of the scientists but the scientists seem to have a fear of the philosophers, viewing us as some kind of threat to the public?  We put our ideas, our assertions and deductions out there, and wait for science to disprove them.  In … Read more

We all slip in our chiropractic thinking and it is fortunate to have someone or something that will help us check that slipping.  Recently, the head of a national organization slipped in his philosophy or actually took a major fall, sort of like King Kong taking a header off the Empire State Building.  I’m speaking … Read more