[Luigi Vasellini]

Chiropractors do not get the same medical education as DO's or MD's!! However I think that chiropractors do a genuine service and belong at a university. It is more similar to physical therapy.

[Uncledave]

Chiropractors do not get the same medical education as DO's or MD's!!

Not true. The beginning semesters of preclinical classwork in chiropractic school are practically the same as in medical school: Gross Anatomy, Biochem, etc.

Here's the curriculum at New York Chiropractic College: http://www.nycc.edu/acadaffairs/dc_curriculum.pdf

After the precilincal studies prospective MD's and Chiro's branch off into their respective practical studies.

[tob2]

Yes it is almost the same as physical therapy. I'm very fortunate to have a good chiropractor.

[mgobluegop]

I am a 3rd yr student at a DO school and I learned all of the manipulation stuff and use it when it is called for. I think that chiropractors have there place in the field, but when they try to overstep their bounds nothing but trouble can come from it. Manipulation can be great especially for musculoskeletal pain, and myself have been relieved of pain in my pain and neck with manipulation. But saying that chiro's receive the same education that DO do is wrong, in fact at my school ,Michigan State, the DOs and MDs are in the same Basic science classes.
If anybody has any questions I will try to answer, since I kind of have a unique placement in the debate.

[TYVets]

"It is more similar to physical therapy"

Our insurance provider does cover Physical Therapists as well as Chiropractors.

Our Workers Compensation Insurance (employees injured on the job) does the same.

Some Pro Gun Organizations have said doctors killed 120,000 people each year though mistakes.

Are any statistics available as to the number of patients killed by Chiropractors each year?

[kailbo]

You said: "Chiropractors do not get the same medical education as DO's or MD's!! However I think that chiropractors do a genuine service and belong at a university. It is more similar to physical therapy."

In essence, you are correct-- Chiro's don't get the SAME medical education. However, the chiropractic course of study, in many cases, is longer that for an average GP.

[beavus]

However I think that chiropractors do a genuine service and belong at a university. It is more similar to physical therapy.

Flat wrong. Chiropractors frequently make claims that are known to be demonstrably false. The very origins of chiropracty is based upon claims that are incompatible with what is now known. It is because of the falsehoods that chiropracty has no place in any institute of higher learning.

Physical therapy, on the other hand, has emerged as a science--i.e. dependent upon rational evaluation of observations. It clearly merits a place in any university.

Universities do not exist primarily to churn out people to perform services. They exist primarily for the advancement of knowledge. To admit chiropracty, a university would have to give up even the facade of that mission.

As a consumer you can feel free to receive services without regard to the validity of its practitioners' claims. A university should not be allowed that discretion.