Guardians of a Monopoly

Thinking Outside the Little Black Bag Guardians of a Monopoly By JCS President Obama said during his March 24, 2009 press conference that solving the healthcare crisis is imperative to solving the financial crisis; “in fact, the biggest driver of long-term deficits...

Green Healthcare

Almost Everything You Never Knew About Chiropractors by JCS T. Boone Pickens preaches the benefits of green energy like wind, solar, and liquefied natural gas to replace our dependency on oil, but the idea of green alternatives in healthcare is lesser-known although...

Golden Opp Missed

Golden Opportunity Missed By JCS The 2007 Presidential Address by RD Guyer, MD, “The paradox in medicine today—exciting technology and economic challenges,” reprinted in The Spine Journal,[1] failed to answer his proposition as to what is absurd or contradictory in...

Goin’ to Jail for Chiro

“Goin’ to Jail for Chiro” by JC Smith, MA, DC  Today it’s hard to imagine that over 15,000 DCs went to jail for practicing chiropractic care in the first half of the 20th century. These early healthcare libertarians were convicted under the...

Germ or Disk Theory?

Iconoclastic or Progressive? Germ Theory or Disk Theory? By JC Smith, MA, DC We, chiropractors, are an unusual bunch of health professionals. Actually, “unusual” may be too vague since it fails to describe the lengths some DCs have gone to refute, deny, or discredit...