Professional Amnesia

Dear Editor: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, wrote an Op-Ed in The New York Times (August 1, 2012), “More Treatment, More Mistakes,” suggesting that “More is not always better in medicine,” an honest warning to a huge problem in all healthcare,...

Zombie Spine Care

ABSTRACT      Medical experts now state that many medical theories and treatments are not evidence-based, and this is most aptly seen in American spine care. Many medical critics site the huge costs, ineffective medications, ESI, low rates of surgical success, high...

The Responsibility for Failure

 “… the ultimate objective of the AMA, theoretically, is the complete elimination of the chiropractic profession.” Robert Youngerman, attorney for the AMA’s Department of Investigation[1] In the Court of Public Opinion: Chiropractors v. the Medical Profession   Ladies...

Piling on Chiropractic

Is it just me or do you find it odd that now eleven articles (increasing daily) have appeared within days of each other on the same issue—the safety of chiropractic? “Letting chiropractor ‘crack’ your neck to relieve pain could trigger stroke.” London,...

Hit & Run Journalism

The famed children’s story Chicken Little made fun of a ridiculous notion by a nervous chicken that ran hysterically around the barnyard screaming “the sky is falling, the sky is falling” after an acorn fell on its head. Of course, everyone knew the sky wasn’t...