800-pound gorilla

800-pound gorilla in healthcare By JC Smith, MA, DC   As the Obama administration begins talks on healthcare reform, the medical cartel is already forming its lobbying efforts and phony advocacy groups to disseminate misinformation to scare the public as we saw during...

Misleading Research

Let the Chips Fall By JCS The supermarket of care for spinal disorders just got more confusing with the release of an RCT by WC  Peul et al.[1] Dr. Peul is Director of the Spine Intervention Prognostic Study Group at Leiden University Medical Center. Since 2004, he...

Military Health Issues

 March 3, 2011 Rep. Bob Filner 2428 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Sir: Let me thank you for helping my profession gain access within the military health services. Unfortunately, the inclusion of chiropractic care has been sabotaged by MDs and...

Merchants of Misinform

Merchants of Misinformation  “The truth is, he’d probably have been cured if he had fanned himself with goofus feathers.”[1] Ann Landers, syndicated columnist The impact of Morris Fishbein’s viral journalism attacking chiropractic planted the seed for others to follow...

Medicare for Everyone?

NEJM Editorial  Medicare for Everyone?  by  JC Smith, MA, DC  I enjoy reading The New England Journal of Medicine for its timely and interesting commentaries about healthcare issues. While their medical perspective is often very slanted to their interests, it does...