[shellshocked]

"To be science-based, a chiropractic school must be completely free of "subluxation" theory"

And to be perfectly honest, as a scientist, doctors will have to forgo their theory that only drugs and surgery can heal if they want to be taken seriously.

[Steve Eisenberg]

And to be perfectly honest, as a scientist, doctors will have to forgo their theory that only drugs and surgery can heal if they want to be taken seriously.

I go to a thoroughly orthodox family medicine MD and have never felt he was like that.

Specifics: I am 49 and have had three orthopedic-type problems in my life. First, carpal tunnel. Doc said to sleep with wrist spints. They have cured me, except that if I don't wear them, the pain is back. Second problem, back pain. He told me I could keep on taking OTC pain pills for a few days, and gave me stretching exercises to keep it from coming back. I find that if I don't do the exercises for 2-3 days, a tinge of pain comes back. But so far doing the exercises is a long-term cure. Third problem: heel pain. For this he had to send me to an MD foot specialist. The specialist gave me a damn uncomfortable foot twisting gadget to sleep with, but after a few weeks it did the job.

High blood pressure and high cholesterol? Well, doc told me to lose weight and the rest of it, and if I had done exactly what he wanted, I might not need pills for that either. But since what I am doing apparently isn't enough, he put me on pills. Can't blame him for that, can you?

So, a lot of the time, it is lack of patient compliance that results in them prescribing so many pills. Yes, there are loads of corrupt docs who take gifts from drug companies to prescribe that new $4 pain pill when over the counter is way, way cheaper, equally effective, and has better understood side effects because it is 50 or 100 years old. On the other hand, there is the kind of patient who wants doc to load them up with free samples of something seen on TV. And, and knowing that everything has risks, there are actual life-saving pills and surgeries.

I guess I getting my practice here for talking like an old man about all his illnesses.

[FormerACLUmember]

"To be science-based, a chiropractic school must be completely free of "subluxation" theory" And to be perfectly honest, as a scientist, doctors will have to forgo their theory that only drugs and surgery can heal if they want to be taken seriously.

I don't know who you are quoting, but it is not me. As far as subluxation theory goes, chiropractic can never be free of subluxation theory as a cause of illness... it would cease to be chiropractic.

[beavus]

And to be perfectly honest, as a scientist, doctors will have to forgo their theory that only drugs and surgery can heal if they want to be taken seriously.

Are you really that misinformed?