Fifth Annual Conference on Research and Education
Theme: Instrumentation and Standards of Care
To be held in conjunction with the Annual Convention of the California Chiropractic Association and California Chiropractic Foundation in Sacramento.
June 14-17, 1990
Faculty, Field Doctors and Students are invited to submit abstracts of 200 words each by March 30, 1990. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be invited to prepare communications for inclusion in the published proceedings of the conference.
Submit to:
Program Committee
Conference on Research and Education
(Pacific) Consortium for Chiropractic Research
1095 Dunford Way
Sunnyvale, California 94087
Or contact: Robert D. Jansen, Ph.D. (408) 983-4067
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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