My gut estimate is that conventional medicine is appropriate for about 15 or 20 percent of the instances in which we're now using it. And I think if we restrict it to those instances, we wouldn't have an economic crises in health care. But doctors don't know anything else. Those are the tools they've been given.
-- Andrew Weil, MD
"People are interested in alternative therapies, but they won't necessarily share their curiosity with you. Letting your patients know you're open-minded about alternative options will encourage them to tell you what they're doing. You may, in fact, find that alternative therapies provide you with some extra tools. And you may also discover, as some physicians have, that life is just a bit more interesting."
Manual therapy: Hands on healing. Patient Care, Dec. 15, 1997.
"Public demand combined with managed care pressures appear to be creating a growing role for chiropractors in staff positions at medical groups."
Primary nonphysician? American Medical News, November 10, 1997.
"Congress created a monster when it passed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) in 1974. While the regulation of health insurance had historically been done at the state level, Congress preempted the rights of the states to regulate employee health benefits plans. Congress gave to itself the sole responsibility to establish protections for people enrolled in those plans. This is the environment that we have today."
-- Congressman Charlie Norwood, author of the PARCA bill.
When I graduated from chiropractic college in 1981 and started practice, I heard it all, and very little was positive. “You are a quack; you do not know what a subluxation is; you couldn’t get into a real health care program, so you chose the one that is slightly above a mail-order degree; you have no proof that chiropractic works; Are you really licensed?”, and so much more.
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