Thoughts

THOUGHT

News Item; Wal-Mart the world’s largest private employer announces they will no longer cover chiropractic services as an employee insurance benefit.  We have done such a great job convincing the insurance companies that we do the same things that medicine does, i.e., treat disease conditions and their cause, that they have decided we are no … Read more

The ADIO Viewpoint of Life – Part I

Characteristics of an ADIO Philosophy It is important to realize that everyone has a world and life viewpoint. Even the supposed absence of a viewpoint is a viewpoint. There is probably only two viewpoints what we in chiropractic world call the ADIO Viewpoint and the outside-in viewpoint. It often seems like people have more than … Read more

From the Mailbox

A young chiropractor recently wrote to me expressing his concern and displeasure over a Pivot article about the relationship between the objective straight chiropractor and what we would call the traditional chiropractor, the “chiropractic gets sick people well” type, those who usually identify themselves as being subluxation-based. He felt that, while we have some differences, … Read more

THOUGHT

Innate intelligence is not a theological concept but it is an important concept to theology because it is the difference between biologcial life and human life, between a living organism and a living soul.v18n2

An Apology

Every so often an event or circumstance will bring to light something that should have seemed very obvious. We all knew that there were terrorists in the world who hated the United States and attacked us in foreign countries. We also knew that we have virtually no system to keep would-be terrorists out of the … Read more

Thought

Innate intelligence is not a theological concept but it is an important concept to theology because it is the difference between biological life and human life, between a living organism and a living soul. V18n2

Mission Trips

Traveling to a foreign country for a week or so to give the inhabitants chiropractic care seems to be a favorite activity of many chiropractors. They come back fired up by the wonder of an extraordinary experience. Usually they share with us the details of how they personally adjusted hundreds of people in a day. … Read more

Thought

The day that innate intelligence and removing an interference to the transmission of innate forces becomes only a convenient term for the chiropractors, like viz medicatrix naturae is for medicine, will be the day that chiopractic becomes as ineffective in the area of health and human potential as medicine. v18n1

Thought

It is not a matter of whether you have a philosophy or not.  Even a rejection of philosophy is a philosophy.  The issue is whether you have critically evaluated your philosophy or not in light of logic. Gary Dunn, D.C.v17n4