Principles and Practices of Chiropractic

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Summary: An excellent overview...
Review: Dr. Haldeman has written a balanced and thorough overview of the chiropractic profession. It is somewhat dated but a medical literature search will quickly bring you up to speed as he continues to publish extensively in journals such as Spine. Highly recommended if you want the basics.

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Summary: Response to Dr. Chowtowski's "Review"
Review: I found the Dr. Haldemans book to be a good book. Not the greatest, as certain things were a bit dated but all around an interesting read.

I have never seen such an unprofessional response as yours however. Stuffing the ballet on your referenced site for your own book (yes it was pretty obvious), not to mention the overall lack of professionalism in my opinion. No I'm not an expert in medicine but I know a bit more than you about computer/network technology I would presume.

Then again, I'm just a simpleton. I have no particular stake here one way or the next. I'm not a practicing physician. I'm not even in health care. I'm just a technology guy. (You know, a programmer in C, C++, Ada95, LISP etc.) (I also enjoy the study and design of operating systems and Artificial Intelligence applications) I know... so how DARE I question the almighty physician right?

I've also read your review of New York Chiropractic College. Very strange indeed. You would have to be blind not to find the research lab and it's millions of dollars worth of research equipment.

Odd as well that you chose to accost the tour guide with medical questions. I'm sure the tour guide was a fantastic intellectual boost for you. The Dean seemed,(from your account, I've haven't spoken with him yet), to be kinder and simply choose to give you a book and send you on your way. If I had to put up with your attitude I guess I would have done the same.

Funny as many medical doctors I've spoken with are extremely impressed with the academic rigors of NYCC's curriculum. Particularly those at Bethesda Naval Hospital, where students from New York Chiropractic College often intern. But then again what the heck would I know. I'm just a simple technology guy. What hospital do you work at again?

Tell me again about medical school. Do they still teach neat things in medical school like logic/rhetoric/debate? (They did in the military academy I attended.) If they do, then surely you realize that your statement in which you asked the Dean to... (And I am paraphrasing) " Prove that Chiropractic is not bunk." is asking to prove a negative. Under the rules of debate and logic, (you did take that right?) it is, of course impossible to prove a negative.

If you lack the ability to research JAMA, JMT or other peer reviewed journals that is your issue, not the Dean of the school. It sounds to me like you're more jealous of New York Chiropractic Colleges campus than anything else.

Again please excuse me, I'm a simple technology guy, not a super-all-knowing medical doctor, any mistakes here are my own doing and no one else's and this is just my simple opinion:

What do Chiropractors do? (A very simple question)

A: Think of the Chiropractor as a conservative health practitioner. Trained in differential diagnosis, the latest diagnostic procedures (You know similar in function to a general practitioner who really knows a lot about orthopedics). They recommend dietary changes/improvements, lifestyle recommendations, exercise if warranted, various physiotherapeutic regimens, and can do allergy work-ups, prescribe orthotics, do X-Ray, MRI, CAT or other radiological diagnostic imaging procedures, utilize multi-class LASAR modalities etc. and when appropriate, they refer to the appropriate allopathic physician (i.e. surgeon, medical specialist etc.) Often those same allopathic physicians refer patients to chiropractors.

There is much more but I digress. I don't have room here to explain everything and I'm just a simple guy. I don't have all the answers.

Surely someone of your obvious superior medical talent has better things to do than lambaste a complementary profession? Obviously there is much more to being a Chiropractic Physician and this is just a very simple, general overview, and you understand what I'm saying.
Maybe you don't.

Or maybe.....just maybe.... it's because you and the de-licensed Stephen Barrett (Who has lost every recent court case he's been involved in and is accused of racketeering if I read the court papers correctly) feel a certain amount of fear or envy regarding Dr. Haldemans abilities. After all, he is a triple doctorate holding DC,MD and Ph.D. degrees. You're degree was as an MD correct?
You graduated in 1945 right?

Maybe it's because you and the five or six other people in your organization (which in my opinion is full of quackery itself) seem to crave the media so much and have something to hide? I think in Psych 101 we called it Shadow Projection (to use a Jungian Term) I don't know. Actions sure speak louder than words though. I see Dr. Holdeman at many medical review panels and neurological symposiums.

Funny.... I haven't seen you at any of the neurology symposiums presenting research to contrast what Dr. Holdeman has been saying. Maybe it's because you can't.