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.
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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 Well known author and Harvard Medical School graduate As quoted in Time magazine Fall/1996.