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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: My opinion of Chiropractors.
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>[long discussion of a friend who died of cancer and doctor incompetence] 
>    I offer you this experiment:  ask any 10 doctors you wish what their annual
> mal-practice insurance premium is.  The ask any 10 chiropractors what *THEIR*
> annual mal-practice insurance premium is.  You will get a very big surprise.
> 

Not a fair comparision.  People go to chiropractors because they are in
pain -- seldom because of a life-threatening emergency.  Doctors see 
patients on average in much greater danger.  Also, chiropractors are
somewhat more limited than M.D.s in the sort of procedures they are
allowed to perform -- the really hazardous procedures are reserved for
real doctors.

>    At least in the state of California, Chiropractors receive as good as, and
> by some people's reckoning, a better education than MDs.  They are every bit

Certainly not as measured by years.  On what basis do you make this 
statement?

> as professional and trustworthy (even more so, in my experience...I've had any
> number of chiropractors say to me:  "I don't know what that is, go see an MD",
> while I have *NEVER* heard an MD admit that s/he didn't know.  Nor have I ever

I've had MDs admit they were stumped.

> heard an MD recommend that I see a chiropractor.  If the MD can't measure it, or
> see it in an x-ray, then as far as they are concerned, it just doesn't exist!).

I had some neck and back problems and my MD sent me to a physical therapist
because the problem didn't show up on an X-ray -- he didn't assume it
didn't exist.  (The physical therapist treated the muscle problem and
traced the problem to my terminal positioning.)

Maybe you need a better MD.  I can strongly recommend Dr. Gieseke in
Santa Rosa.

> tom keller

Clayton Cramer