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I am a 3rd quarter chiropractic student at Life University in Marietta, GA. Before I started school, I was a chiropractic assistant for 4 and a half years for a wonderful doctor in the Athens, GA area. I learned a lot from him about chiropractic, but my main motivation for pursuing this profession is because I feel in love with the patients. I am a people's person....I am very social, I enjoy being around all kinds of people, I am able to empathize with them, I show concern and understanding for each one. And I believe that is what made me good at my job! My biggest heartbreak was to leave all of those wonderful people behind and I miss them dearly. Just by seeing them each time they came in for a visit, I formed close relationships with many of them, even the ones that were kind of difficult at first.
That was my main motivation for becoming a chiropractor...I want to help people! What a noble idea?! I grew up in former Yugoslavia in a family primarily run by very strong women, who did not always put all of their faith in medical doctors. Growing up all over Europe, we always used a number of home remedies, teas, ointments, and such, so going to the medical doctors was for major problems. I even remember my Grandma going to a chiropractor when I was a kid. As you can see, alternative medicine has always been present in my life. I am interested in other forms of alternative medicine, such as accupuncture, accupressure, massage therapy, Chinese medicine, etc. Any which way you look at it, my purpose is to help as many people get healthy and stay healthy without medication and surgery.
The following paper I wrote with a couple of my classmates Katie B. and Rob E. for our Modern Chiropractic Principles class. We had to answer a question and elaborate on it, so this is our take:
Question: Should the chiropractic profession remain a separate and distinct profession from the medical profession? If so, in what ways should the chiropractic and medical professions properly interact as separate professions? In what ways should they remain apart?
We agree that chiropractic should remain a separate and distinct profession from the medical profession because chiropractic is based on a vitalistic philosophy of life. Vitalism is considered to be a doctrine that goes beyond the simple physical and chemical make-up of matter. The innate intelligence is what transcends vitalism into a non-mechanistic philosophy. On the other hand, the medical profession bases their ideology solely on mechanistic practices. Its primary focus is on treating the symptoms through pharmaceuticals and surgical repair, for which they receive financial incentives from the pharmaceutical and surgical equipment manufacturers. As such, there is not an overwhelming amount of desire on the doctors’ part to reach out and figure out the cause of the underlying condition of their patients. The chiropractic approach is to find the primary origin of the symptoms and initiate the body’s own innate intelligence to help correct itself.
There is a common misconception about what a chiropractor does to help a patient. It is often considered that the adjustic thrust is in actuality what makes the pain go away. However, the adjustic thrust is only the mode of facilitation to commence the body’s innate intelligence. The chiropractor serves as the facilitator of the said adjustment by aiding the body in removing the interference. The chiropractic’s core principle is that the body is a dynamic, self-regulating and self-healing entity, and any obstruction creates interference with the body’s ability to fulfill its potential to the fullest. The optimal health of an individual is contingent on the proper alignment of the spine, which houses the majority of the nervous system. Since the body relies on the nervous system to execute all of its functions, it is vital that the spine offers no obstruction hindering the natural process of the body, such as a vertebral subluxation.
There seems to be a major disagreement with the definition of “health” between the chiropractic and medical profession, primarily based on what type of care each provide to their patients. Chiropractic promotes the notion of health in the sense of restoring and maintaining it through natural means without medication and surgery; whereas medical doctors pursue treatment through the alleviation of symptoms via artificial means of medication and surgery. Both professions approach preventative care from different angles. The medical perspective of prevention does not actually prevent a condition or a disease, it only checks for early detection; for example, breast cancer self-exams and mammograms or testing for a genetic predisposition before the development of a disease. The chiropractic approach focuses on actual prevention of the disease by maintaining the body’s ability to heal itself without artificial utilities, so that when it comes in contact with a pathogen, the body’s immune system has the capability of defending itself. Chiropractic promotes a substantial focus on maintenance of lifetime health versus short-term symptom relief.
The public as a whole is responsible for a more proactive attitude in the maintenance of health for each individual person. And it is of vital importance to take into account this role the patient plays in his or her own health care because it has increasingly encouraged patients to seek less invasive methods of treatment. A methodology that chiropractic has utilized is appropriate and versatile education on health improvement, wellness, and maintenance to keep the patients as well as the overall public informed of the choices that are available, including rehabilitation, supportive exercises, and nutritional recommendations. These have been accomplished through health talks in chiropractic offices and community outreach efforts around the county that target a multitude of audiences from children in schools, workplaces, and elderly in retirement homes.
Chiropractic and medical professions should remain separate scopes of practice; however, there is some common ground that must remain recognized, which is the patients’ health and well-being. Chiropractors as well as medical doctors need to acknowledge the need for the other’s profession and develop a system of mutual collaboration and integration in patients’ care management. Chiropractic utilizes individualized patient care to be able to accommodate diverse populations regardless of cultural, social, and environmental factors that may influence the well-being of these individuals. There is a plea for global intervention by providing the appropriate patient care and education in a challenging attempt to bridge the gap between “sickness” and “health” through promotion of wellness. Chiropractors around the world have the opportunity to reclaim the leadership in this important matter by dedicating their time and efforts to spark a change in the medical paradigm that has been instilled in the minds of the majority. As chiropractors, it is our purpose to fulfill our optimum potential in ourselves and as members of society by supporting our patients in the ability to initiate their own innate intelligence in order for them to heal and adapt to the dynamic environment in which we live. Given that change is the only constant in our existence, we have to engage our aptitude for adaptation, innovation, and excellence in our profession by firmly grounding it in our knowledge of the modern chiropractic science, art, and philosophy. As a whole, chiropractic works!
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Canadian Health Care Vs American Health Care - by Charles Moffit
Canada's health care system is the best in the world. So much that other countries try to emulate it.
I am so glad I live in Canada... we live in a country with free health care where citizens value health and wellbeing and health insurance companies aren't trying to rape the customer/patient for as much as cash as they can.
Instead we have free services like Kanetix, which lists a variety of health insurance, travel health insurance, automotive insurance and other policies available in Canada so that Canadians can compare the policies and pick the best possible coverage. So even our privately run health care is better than America's.
In the USA the health insurance industry is huge and is constantly raising rates in order to rape the consumer.
Lets take today's news for example:
Health Care Advocates Bring Protest To State, Business Leaders
CONNECTICUT - Jody Trestman spoke in a voice she hoped would carry to the offices of Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
"We are standing here today because a person's health should no longer be trumped by a corporation's bottom line," said Trestman, whose February diagnosis of Crohn's disease came one month after she downgraded her family's insurance coverage to an HMO.
Why the switch? Her health insurance company had raised its rate 9 percent in a single quarter.
Trestman spoke from the steps of the Capitol on Thursday as part of a demonstration calling on Rell and the business community, in the form of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, to cut the cost and broaden the accessibility of health insurance during the 2009 legislative session.
"In 2009, we will either have a guarantee of quality, affordable health care we all can count on or we will continue to be at the mercy of the private health insurance industry that is charging us more, giving us less and putting company profits before our health," Phil Sherwood, deputy director of Connecticut Citizen Action Group, said in a release.
Citizens for Economic Opportunity organized the march with Sherwood's agency as part of a broader, national initiative sponsored by the advocacy group Health Care for America Now. Organizers said they hoped to draw attention to what they called "the need for quality, affordable health care for all Americans."
Nearly 50 marchers rallied outside CBIA's Church Street headquarters and Rell's office to deliver letters to CBIA president John Rathgeber and Rell expressing disappointment in their opposition to legislation that would have extended the state's employee health insurance coverage to municipalities and small businesses.
In June, Rell vetoed the bill — sometimes called the health pooling bill — saying it could cost the state tens of millions of dollars and might not broaden coverage as promised.
Neither Rathgeber nor Rell were available to receive the letters. A spokesman for Rell said the governor would honor her pledge to take up the issue again in 2009.
"The governor has said that she welcomes the opportunity to work with supporters of the health care pooling bill to develop a revised and workable proposal for consideration in the next regular legislative session," said Adam Liegeot, Rell's spokesman.
A CBIA spokeswoman said the agency is concerned with the state of health care in Connecticut but believes pooling will not fix the problem.
"We all want health care reform, there's no question about that," CBIA spokeswoman Nancy Andrews said. "The question is how to go about it. We need to focus on reducing cost drivers, improving the quality of care and providing the uninsured access to health care."
Leaders in the health insurance industry rebuff accusations they put profits ahead of health care, saying instead that they are part of a private-insurance-based solution by maintaining efficiency in the system.
Organizers said the main point of the march was to raise awareness about the issue, rather than present detailed solutions to the problem. Citizens for Economic Opportunity spokeswoman Cari Carter said the organization will wait until the 2009 legislative session to outline its plans fully.
"We're going to get into the nitty-gritty once the session starts," she said. "Today is about the bigger picture."
Nearly 10 percent of Connecticut residents — more than 350,000 people — have no health insurance, according to the most recent statistics from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A national spokewsowman for Health Care for America Now echoed Carter's remarks and said the group had only put forth a statement of common purpose, outlining 10 issues that must be addressed in health care reform.
That proves it for me. In America its all about getting the health insurance company getting the most bang for their buck. But in Canada where health care is free, private health insurance providers have to compete with a free public service and are essentially forced to do something American health insurance companies don't do: Actually be nice about it and not rape the client for their cash, because if they don't be nice about it Canadians will just find a better company or go back to using their free health care instead.
But I think its time to educate people on the importance of EMS, the Emergency Medical Services.
Well, I would like to start by being completely honest with you, I used to be totally and utterly ignorant of the true importance of the Emergency Medical services, that is up until I got certified as an EMT.
But just take a minute to think of this; What if you were in a car accident, or if your house was on fire and there was no such thing as the Emergency Medical Services? What would you do?
I'm just going to leave it at that... I could go on listing statistics, I could tell you how we've helped you, and what we've done, but I think I just want to leave you thinking about those questions.
EMS -- Busting ours to save yours!
I pray that the reading of this very personal account of war and its aftermath will benefit other combat veterans agonized by severe and chronic PTSD as it has been for me in the writing of it. The intention of this account is to help them, their friends and loved ones better understand this devastating “psychological, automatic, and natural response” to repeated, life threatening situations and to offer them hope and guidance in achieving a much brighter future. This publication will bring them to the realization that they are not alone in their sufferings and that professional help, understanding and comradeship, is as close as the nearest Veterans Administration Medical Center.
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