[Woahhs]

Very good post Doc.

Personally, I think there's a place for just about every modality in healthcare. Unfortunately, many of them can not be supported by the business model that has become the inflexible dictator of American medicine.

The "go to the doctor" regimen has been imposed, and become so ingrained, serious consideration of alternatives by the average American is all but impossible.

In my estimation, the big fear from Chiropractic in the medical establishment is that it DOES work fairly well with the aforementioned business model, and that means competition.

If aliopaths (sp?) had all the answers, you wouldn't have any business. I've personally observed enough of their failures, without hearing any admission of ignorance, to know the last thing they want is empirical evidence from a thriving industry that knows something they don't.

If for nothing else, Chiropractic is owed a debt of gratitude for introducing the homeostatic concept to Joe Six-pack. "Kill or be killed" is not the only approach to medicine, but you'd never know it from talking to your local M.D.

[chiromommy]

You hit part of the issue dead on : Business has a lot to do with the medics versus chiros battle. It's nothing new, but always makes for stimulating discussion! The sad part is that so many people rely on other people's opinions to form their own. So many are misled by the types of articles above and never investigate for themselves. There are definitely enough patients for everyone, I just hate to see such vicious attacks aginst chiropractors, like we're a cult or something. You don't see the same level of emotion when you talk about acupuncture or massage therapy or any of the other "alternative" disciplines. It's very interesting. Some of the posts on this thread have been so emotional and outlandish that I refuse to dignify them with a response! People are funny...