The Mercy document, Guidelines for Chiropractic Quality Assurance and Practice Parameters, is at the printer and is expected to be mailed early in October.
Once again, a special "thank you" to the following organizations for making it possible for every chiropractor in the United States to get a copy:
NCMIC
Foot Levelers, Inc.
OUM Group
California Chiropractic Association
Leander Health Technologies
Activator Methods
Motion Palpation Institute
Parker Chiropractic Resource Foundation
The Practice Resource Group
Synergy
Visual Odyssey
Due to the tremendous number of phone calls concerning the release date of the document, Dynamic Chiropractic will publish an approximate date when you should receive your copy of the Mercy Guidelines. Please be watching for that announcement.
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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