"We promote integration of chiropractic medicine into mainstream health care delivery systems." (James F. Winterstein, president of National University of Health Sciences (NUHS)—formerly called National College of Chiropractic.) Doesn't "mainstream health care delivery systems" mean the medical profession? Doesn't this "integration" mean cooperative absorption? About 20-25 years ago, the president of National College testified before a federal government agency in Washington that there should not be competing health care professions; that all should be joined into one. Think about it. Millions of Americans are now utilizing so-called "alternative and complimentary" methods of health care not yet fully under direct, non-competitive control or influence of organized medicine. NUHS has never advocated chiropractic to be a separate and distinct philosophy, science and art restricted to locating, analyzing and adjusting vertebral subluxations. Forecast: Eventual formal "integration" of NUHS with the medical profession and selective, cooperative, "portal of entry" access of already medical patients for a "multidisciplinary package" of medicine, surgery and "qualified, alternative and complimentary" methods (including spinal adjustments-manipulations), with or without identification of such as "chiropractic." How easy could it then be for independent, principled, non-absorbed chiropractors and colleges to compete with such an influential portal-of-entry "team?" What then would follow, motivated by a drowning attempt at self-preservation... a Sherman University of Health Sciences, Palmer University of Health Sciences, Life University of Health Sciences, etc.? After all, there is a historical precedent in their unanimous submission to the Council on Chiropractic Education! "Education is the molder of the profession," prophesized the late, great Dr. Leonard W. Rutherford, a former president of the International Chiropractors Association, who advocated legal action to expunge the CCE as the official accrediting agency for chiropractic colleges and replacing it with one that would reflect a true scope of chiropractic practice from "above-down, inside-out." John V. Whalev, DC, F.l.C.A (retired)
