Posted on 01/05/2005 6:00:32 AM PST by MedNole
A school of Chiropractic at FSU? What's next, a school of Accupuncture? ......a degree in VooDoo medicine can't be far behind.......
This is what you get sometimes when politicians who began their careers as Dims switch to the GOP. RINOs. The chiropractic profession whether you think it is a healing art or quackery has done just fine without state sponsored schools. But this Dim pretending to be a member of the GOP only knows he can do so why shouldn't he?
Physicians do not want anyone to pick their lock on the medical profession. Tis okay for government to protect their turf but they whine when government wants to offer competition.
Wow! I just had the most brilliant idea! How 'bout if CHIROPRACTORS funded the entire thing?? Gee, do I think out of the box or what?
By the way, I hate the phrase "think out of the box".
It has nothing to do with competition...it has to do with state tax money being wasted when there isn't a need for more chiropractors in Florida and the academic integrity of FSU. I think chiropractors are great, and I think most people would agree that they offer HUGE benefits to many patients. However, why should Florida State (which just started a medical school that is trying to build a reputation) become the FIRST publicly funded chiropractic school in North America?? It doesn't make any sense.
quacks???? whatever...Fact remains, physicians do not want any competition. As for tax dollars being spent, show me any physician that did not benefit from tax dollars during his education.
The article points to what is next: He [King] added: "I'm a Scorpio. I'm much more subtle than that."
Spend money so the Hubble Space Telescope can make more accurate astrological predictions.
Chiropractors are OK if they keep to the spine. Locally we have one Quackopractor (I love that word) who buys an hour a week of radio time to claim that adjustments and nutrition can cure anything and vaccines shouldn't be given to kids. I say lock him in a room full of old iron lungs that don't have to be used anymore because of polio vaccinations.
It occurs to me that universities whose existence depends on the state are basically at the mercy of the state and its whims, at least to some extent. A very un American concept, now that I think of it.
But would not having chiropractic schools on this level tend to weed out some of the clowns that are in the field?
A chiropractic school would be a complete embarassment to both the FSU med school and the university as a whole.
500+ FSU faculty members from all fields have signed petitions protesting this insanity, which would be a profound professional embarassment, especially for the medical researchers and scientists.
Florida, like a lot of states, is cutting higher education spending while at the same time raising tuition. So why is this the time to add a chiropractic school? There is no need for additional chiropractors in the state, and programs across the state are being slashed. In addition, FSU would have the only state-supported chiropractic school in the nation!!! Also, FSU's new College of Medicine is working on accreditation, and this development can't help.
I don't want this thread to turn into the validity of chiropractic, because that has been rehashed over and over again. I, like most people, believe that chiropractors are great for many patients. However, that does not mean that FSU should have a chiro school forced upon it just because the Senate majority leader is a chiropractor!
My neighbor here in Miami is considering a disc operation. But interestingly, she is consulting her witch doctor to help her decide on a surgeon. The island culture here can be pretty different.
Chiropractic is a moderately successful business technique based on the (extremely powerful and very real) placebo effect. There is no scientific method or research in this enterprise.
I used to live down there in Margate in 77-81. The chicken bone readers were active then as now. The Mariel boatlift didn't help any. Here we have Cajun-Creole Voodoo seeping in from Nawrlins.....
Perhaps Mr. King consulted his horror-scope and decided we needed some scientology......
Chiropractor/Crooked Politico Jim King wants to waste $30 million a year (that is the actual bottom line cost) on establishing an FSU BigFoot Institute (or was it a Center for Psychic Hotline Studies?).
Who has decided that FL has "enough" chiropractors???? Have we dismissed the law of supply and demand? Perhaps FL has too many physicians?
We hear like arguments here on FR from medical people whenever any state wants to give PAs or NPs more room to work.
They all want the government to stay out of the medical profession, yet they want the same government to make sure no one muscles in on their territory. What we have is a union shop enforced by the government.
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