Disunited and Weak
Dear Editor:
What is the problem with our moronic leaders? I ask this with little respect, because it seems that they all have little respect for us. Four national organizations? That's brilliant! And for what? Because Joe Blow wants to use a hotpack? Because Frank Blow feels that a hydroculator is contraband? Because Sammy Blow wants to adjust under anesthesia? Who cares?
Why can't these idiots come together and address the real problems: ridiculous peer reviews, varying fee schedules from insurance companies, survival of the profession? As a doctor in New York, I find it quite interesting that no-fault insurance companies will pay $54.73 for an initial evaluation for your patient, but will pay you up to $150 for the same patient when it involves an independent medical examination. Am I wrong, or is this part of the problem?
Maybe there isn't unity because that was the choice selected. As an avid reader of your publication, it makes me sick to read a story like "Chiro Unity Betrayed?" (April 22, 2002 issue, on line at www.chiroweb.com/archives/20/09/20.html). And this is not because of you or your writers! The year is 2002: Let's wake up and smell the damn coffee!
My idea: Establish one governing body with individual department heads (straight, mixer, somewhat-straight, somewhat-mixer, "medipractotherapy," etc.) Let's have a majority rule with voting similar to the House of Representatives (based on the population of each group).
This could work, unless the goal has been all along to keep us disunited and weak. If medical doctors have changed with the times by accepting "alternative therapy," why the hell haven't we?
Xerxes Oshidar,DC
Hempstead, New York
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