The Edge
6953 N. Oracle Road
Tucson, AZ 85704
This letter will probably be a waste of my time, but I am so incensed by the material I just received that I am impelled to write anyway!
People like Dale Lotter, if his claims are true that he is seeing 1300-1400 patients/week are leading the chiropractic profession down the road to oblivion! Thirteen hundred patients/week comes out to 260/day in a 5 day work week and if the doctor works 10 hours/day that is 26 patients/hour, allowing 2.31 minutes/patient. That is for a 10 hour day. An 8 hour day increases the patient load to 32.5 patients/hour, giving less than 2 minutes/patient. How anyone can feel that this is competent chiropractic care is beyond my comprehension.
At this time when all of healing arts is under scrutiny because of the enormous increases in health care costs and when chiropractic is particularly under fire, those like your group who are teaching people to rip off the system may very well be the impetus for chiropractic to be excluded from managed care systems which appear to inevitably be coming on as the predominant approach to payment for health care.
I have no real idea how your program works -- and have no interest to find out, but mega-volumes of patients such as you advocate and claim to produce cannot be equated with quality chiropractic or other health care. Whatever happened to the word care in the system. In a patient visit when the doctor sees the patient for approximately 2 minutes, quality care is not anywhere in the picture.
I'm sure that by your standards, I am a failure; but by the standards of reason, you are charlatans of the first order!
By this letter, I am demanding that you remove my name from your mailing list! If I receive any further promotional material from you I will register a complaint with the Postal Service, noting that I have demanded that you cease to send such.
You and those like you who equate success with ripping off patients, should be jailed. I hope that when you need quality health care, you get the production line approach you are teaching.
With disgust!
Joseph W. Howe, D.C., D.A.C.B.R.
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