Berkeley Public Health

Enjoy my REBUTTAL TO 2019 WHITE PAPER to BACK PAIN & OSTEOPOROESIS  by LEE H. RILEY III & SUZANNE M. JAN de BEUR. Here is an excerpt from the introduction: BERKELEY TRUE GRIT As a Cal grad (BS ’70) and now as a practicing chiropractor for the past 40 years,...

Rx Drug Summit

THE ELEPHANT AT THE SUMMIT The 2019 National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit held in Atlanta was a major gathering of stakeholders, noted speakers and 3,000 attendees to discuss the huge opioid problem. The leaders of the NIH, CDC, the National Institute on Drug...

Berlin Wall

TO:         WFC NATIONAL LEADERS FROM:     JC SMITH, MA, DC RE:         ACCOUNTABILITY The 2019 Berlin WFC conference shocked the profession with outrageous acts by two notable characters in chiropractic. No one expected Greg Kawchuk and Jan Harvtigsen to use the...

Health Care Reform

Elephant in Healthcare Reform This appeared as an Op-Ed in the Macon Telegraph on June 28, 2017 Once again Congress feverishly tries to fix a broken healthcare system while ignoring the proverbial “elephant in the room” that continues to dominate but goes unmentioned....

Medical Mussolini

Medical Mussolini The ongoing medical war against chiropractors in the media reminds me of a quote attributed to former U.S. Sen. Richard Russell from Georgia who once told his opponent during a debate, “If you’ll quit telling lies on me, I’ll quit telling the truth...