Chiropractor’s Fight for Survival
This information is important to talk about since this has been ignored by the media.
The following is from the AMA Journal of Ethics of June 2011.
“Although the chiropractic profession now occupies a largely mainstreamed place in the health care spectrum of the United States, this has not always been the case. From its formation in 1895 by founder Daniel David Palmer, the chiropractic profession has faced a plan of containment and elimination by the American Medical Association that continued for nearly a century. It took an anti-lawsuit filed against the AMA in 1976 to reveal the magnitude and scope of the AMA’s plan. Despite generations organized of medical opposition, chiropractors did what most other groups of professionals failed to do: They maintained a separate and distinct identity from the practice of medicine while growing in an otherwise hostile environment created by the AMA and its component state associations.”
In 1963 the AMA established the Committee on Quackery for “containment of the chiropractic profession.” Joseph Sabatier, Chairman of the Committee on Quackery, said that “rabid dogs and chiropractors fit into the same category… Chiropractors are nice, but they kill people.” I did see excerpts from the lawsuit. When Dr. Sabatier was asked does he know the education chiropractors receive. His answer was no. He was then asked did he had ever tried to find out about chiropractors’ education. He again answered no.
Thankfully, in 2024 we do not you are much about chiropractic being quacks. But in my experience, there are some who suspect chiropractic practice to be dangerous and not scientific. Thankfully, I have many acquaintances and interactions with medical doctors who have treated me with respect and as a colleague.
