James Badge, DC, chairman, and the Arizona Board of Chiropractic Examiners has announced that Pamela J. Paschal, interim executive director, has been instated as executive director. Her instatement is effective Feb. 1, 2014.
Ms. Paschal was appointed as the interim executive director on Oct. 2, 2013. She has been with the chiropractic board since April 2009.
Source: Arizona Board of Chiropractic Examiners
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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