Dear TAC: This is my answer to your question about the appropriate scientific proof of chiropractic that might help our legislative acceptance and insurance. I believe that the scientific community is aware of the unbelievable number of deaths each year that result from medical care, and yet they (MD's) exist. I promise you. if chiropractic were responsible for as many deaths as are verified each year due to medical care and prescription drug use. it would be pronounced a crime to hold a degree in chiropractic, and there would be active ongoing arrests made in every city in this country. Gaining scientific acceptability is just another stall tactic used to keep us at bay. and we are playing into this action even better than those who hate us thought we would. The scientific people already have proof that chiropractic adjustments work and are effective, why else are there now courses for masseuses and therapists of every notion being taught to manipulate spines? WAKE UP! As soon as these people learn one-fourth of what we know, they will be taking from us what only we can responsibly and accurately deliver. We are the people the medical profession wants to go away, at any and all costs. Our only hope is to educate the public and let them demand their right to have the service we provide. The legislators will respond to the cries of their people. We must stop giving condition care and start giving well-ness care. When we treat conditions, we are selling ourselves out. or—better, yet—giving ourselves away. The medical profession treats conditions, because the public, at large, is not yet tuned into wellness care. Every human alive will break down, if they wait long enough, without ongoing care to the body in an effort to stay well. We live in a very lazy and irresponsible world, where we all want it free. We do nothing to maintain wellness, because it might cost us out-of-pocket. Yet. we have our oil changed in our automobiles to prevent engine failure. The same rule applies to our bodies and, my friends, we are the ones who must educate the public about this, because the other guys won't. They can't-after all. their entire existence depends on people not taking care of themselves. They need people whose health crashes as a result of negligence. How else could they keep building new hospitals and bigger insurance companies? Gregory J. Yablonovsky. D. C.
