Because they have yet to pass national legislation protecting the chiropractic profession, Japanese DCs are in a similar situation that U.S. DCs faced. We were fortunate enough to be able to pass chiropractic licensure state by state. The DCs in Japan must accomplish this nationally, which has proved to be an extremely difficult task. And in spite of their efforts, Japanese DCs are currently faced with two chiropractic professions.
Correction to We Get Letters & E-Mail (March 20, 2000)
William Culbert Jr.,MD,DC, writes: "I would appreciate an editorial correction on my letter to the editor in your March 20 issue (http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/18/07/20.html). I said that the IPV (inactivated polio vaccine) was introduced nationally this year because of eight cases of iatrogenic polio in the U.S. The change was made because there were only eight cases of polio in the U.S. These were caused by the oral polio vaccine."