Being a chiropractor and seeing the amazing things that happen in people never ceases to fascinate me. It seems incredible how they get a precise adjustment and the body begins to function normally. Often those same people have come here after trying everything else, spending thousands on state-of-the-art diagnosis and treatments and then, as a last resort, here they are. I suppose it’s understandable that people go where they have faith first.
Americans have surely placed their faith in physicians, specialists, pharmacists and drug manufacturers. Our country spends an enormous amount of money on physicians, hospitals and drugs. Yet it seems strange that we continue to have a steadily worsening health care crisis in this country. The health care crisis has been in the headlines more than 3 decades. Politicians argue about insurance coverage but the debate about health care never even touches on the real issue, the declining health of people.
I look on and think that I’m glad that chiropractic is a separate and distinct profession. Contributing to a person’s health and well-being without being a part of medicine allows me to have a more objective look at what goes on. I’ve often wondered about the big push to mandate that people (especially children) get immunized. We hear very little about the science behind these mandates, just a lot of demands and threats about what will happen if people don’t comply. As a chiropractor I don’t have a position on the controversy, but as a concerned parent I had to explore this issue myself. When I studied the issue it reminded me of the famous story by Hans Christian Andersen in which the emperor misused the people’s money. Then a child in the crowd, unaware of the need to keep up the pretense, exclaimed as the emperor paraded by that, the emperor has no clothes! Parents need to become informed on this issue and that means listening to both sides of the argument.
This article from the Health Freedom Alliance came across my desk today: http://healthfreedoms.org/2014/04/22/unvaccinated-children-will-be-healthiest-among-future-generations-studies-and-surveys-predict/