The term alternative health care has hurt chiropractic. People are ready for an alternative to medicine (in treating disease) and more than willing to put chiropractic in that niche. This confuses the true objective of chiropractic and leads the public astray. April 21, 2010
You cannot have an amoral philosophy like that of science and expect it to function for the benefit of society. I needs a moral code as its authority. April 14,2010
The educated brain unlike the innate intelligence learns by trial and error. Therefore we must allow people the opportunity and freedom to learn by failure when it comes to issues of health or else they will never learn. April 14,2010
Do people see us as the healer or do they see the innate intelligence of the body as the healer? If we view the innate intelligence of the body in the same way we view ourselves we will never make the distinction or develop the distinction of what we do. Do they see us as … Read more
If government really believed that addiction was a disease why would they run, advertise, allow, and promote daily lotteries? April 7, 2010
There seems to be an ever-increasing effort within the straight chiropractic movement to emphasize the importance of the vertebral subluxation. There are seminars that teach how to “sell” the vertebral subluxation. In the communication courses at Sherman they strongly emphasize the importance of explaining the vertebral subluxation to the practice member—what it is, how it … Read more
One of the questions I am occasionally asked in practice is, “What else can I do for this problem?” The first thing this tells me is that the practice member really has not grasped the full impact of what the chiropractic objective is. It is not to get rid of a problem. Hopefully, the question … Read more
Perhaps we have come to the point that it is time to drop the adjectival description of chiropractic. Fewer and fewer chiropractors describe themselves as “straight” It does create confusion with regard to, among other things, one’s sexual preference. The last remaining college that described itself as straight has dropped the word from its name, … Read more
The time has come. The straight segment of the chiropractic profession needs to make a choice. There is a war going on, a battle for the minds of humanity and we as a profession are conscientious objectors. We have stood on the sidelines and not gotten involved. After all, we are straight chiropractors and we … Read more
The great genius Stephen Hawkins says that “We are determined (that is have purose in our life and in our existance) but since we do not know for what, we might as well not be.” Aren’t you thankful to be a chiropractor and know what your purpose is and have the opportunity to accomplish that … Read more