Not in the least. They are trained to ask those questions in order to make you think you are getting more for your money. Doesn't change the treatment one iota, any more than the x-rays.
Medical doctors are a neccessity, especially for women. My new gyencologist asked me about previous doctors, who had I seen? I said a couple of chiropractors. She gave me a very stern look and said, "Never, ever go to a chiropractor."
I have never, ever been back to her office. If she's that ignorant, then I'd be stupid to trust her with my health.
Maybe she'd had a patient who got a stroke after seeing a chiropractor. Or maybe she just believes in the principles of her profession and doesn't hide them to ingratiate herself with patients, as would a well-trained chiropractor. Instead, I presume, you prefer physicians who tell you what want to hear.
Now, I'm presuming here that you're open to hearing from other posters who don't tell you what you want to hear. If not, you have my apologies.
Yes, that's what I thought at the time. Odd how out of the zillions of common chronic ailments that afflict people, he zeroed in on the two I suffered from, bladder infections and hay fever -- no others, and he didn't ask me about any others; those were the only two he asked about. I later considered the possibility that my mom had told him about them; she said she hadn't.
Regardless, did you read my post? Perhaps that first time, as a college student and waitress, I should have just listened to the medical docs and laid in bed for two weeks? It was a strange coincidence that the following day as I lay helpless on the living room floor, that I was referred to a chiropractor who charged me $25 and had me pain-free, walking, and working the next day -- two days after the medical experts charged me $85 to tell me I had to accept the "fact" that my back would take two weeks to heal.
I suppose that chiropractor helped me by simply telling me what I wanted to hear?
I didn't mention that in my search for replacement DCs upon moving over the years, I went to several who did no good at all, who used electronic gizmos and gimmicks. I don't currently see a chiropractor because I don't have any ailments; haven't had for years, and haven't seen a DC for years.
The old wisdom is that you can tell a tree by its fruit. The fruit of the medical docs spoke for itself -- for my three ailments, over the course of several years they charged me plenty of money and gave me plenty of tests and drugs, yet my ailments remained. The fruit of the chiropractors: they treated me, my ailments ceased.
It isn't really a matter of accepting only what I want to hear. It's a matter of identifying the tree by its fruit.
You won't get any argument from me that bad chiropractors -- and there are plenty of them -- can do horrible damage to people. I don't doubt it for a second. I've heard of(though not personally known) people who suffered from paralysis and even death because of bad chiropractic treatment.
On the other hand, I personally know someone who was once very nearly killed by a medical doctor. Indeed, his heart stopped beating; fortunately, they were able to get it going again and my man is alive and with me today. He was also nearly killed again by a very bad doctor whose surgery infected him so badly that it almost got into his heart, and we had to go to a surgeon specialist, who saved his life.
My point is that clearly, not all doctors are butchers, neither are they all saints, and sometimes they just plain don't know what they're doing, but either don't know it or won't admit it. Some can and do harm people; others save them. The same appears to be true for chiropractors.