To the Editor:
My article in the January 17, 1990 (page 42-43) issue of Dynamic Chiropractic, "What Is a Chiropractic Science Journal?" incorrectly indicated that the Oklahoma Chiropractic Journal is included in the Chiropractic Library Consortium's Index to the Chiropractic Literature. My apologies for any inconvenience this error may have caused.
Joseph C. Keating, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Palmer College of Chiropractic-West
Sunnyvale, California
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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