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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 92274" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I'm sure glad you got out of there when you did! The "doctor" sounds like he was stoned!</p><p></p><p>I have never been to a chiropractor but I have no problem with them as long as they stick to what they are qualified to do, but some of them don't. I've heard them claim to be able to diagnose and treat all kinds of things - including some that could be symptoms of serious disease (impending heart attack!) that should be checked out by a "real" doctor. When I worked for a newspaper years ago, we had some who were advertisers, and I asked one of them about it. According to him, the patient should come to him first and let him check them out, then if he felt it was something that he couldn't handle, HE would refer you on to an MD! Yeah, right!</p><p></p><p>I'll never forget visiting our old neighborhood with one of my cousins and asking her about what was now a vacant lot where an old house used to be when we were kids. She said the house had been empty for several years and then torn down. Before that, it had been a thriving chiropractic office for years with dozens of patients coming in every day, before they finally figured out what the "doctor" was doing! Turns out, he only had ONE old X-Ray that showed the spine of a person who had a serious degenerative disease. And he had an old inoperative X-Ray machine - it didn't work but lights still came on and it made noises. New patients would come in and he would go through the motions of "X-Raying" them with his (non-working) machine. He'd wait a few minutes, then whip out his ONE X-Ray and proceed to show them what terrible shape "their" spine was in! But they were in luck, because if they came in three or four times a week for "treatments" and "adjustments", he could fix them up good as new! He did this for years and made a ton of money, in his little office that was <em>directly across the street from the local police station</em>! When they finally caught on, he was arrested, went on trial, and ended up doing several years in prison!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 92274, member: 1883"] I'm sure glad you got out of there when you did! The "doctor" sounds like he was stoned! I have never been to a chiropractor but I have no problem with them as long as they stick to what they are qualified to do, but some of them don't. I've heard them claim to be able to diagnose and treat all kinds of things - including some that could be symptoms of serious disease (impending heart attack!) that should be checked out by a "real" doctor. When I worked for a newspaper years ago, we had some who were advertisers, and I asked one of them about it. According to him, the patient should come to him first and let him check them out, then if he felt it was something that he couldn't handle, HE would refer you on to an MD! Yeah, right! I'll never forget visiting our old neighborhood with one of my cousins and asking her about what was now a vacant lot where an old house used to be when we were kids. She said the house had been empty for several years and then torn down. Before that, it had been a thriving chiropractic office for years with dozens of patients coming in every day, before they finally figured out what the "doctor" was doing! Turns out, he only had ONE old X-Ray that showed the spine of a person who had a serious degenerative disease. And he had an old inoperative X-Ray machine - it didn't work but lights still came on and it made noises. New patients would come in and he would go through the motions of "X-Raying" them with his (non-working) machine. He'd wait a few minutes, then whip out his ONE X-Ray and proceed to show them what terrible shape "their" spine was in! But they were in luck, because if they came in three or four times a week for "treatments" and "adjustments", he could fix them up good as new! He did this for years and made a ton of money, in his little office that was [i]directly across the street from the local police station[/i]! When they finally caught on, he was arrested, went on trial, and ended up doing several years in prison! [/QUOTE]
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