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"slenon" wrote in message
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Wolfgang:
The next day, Cullen stood on his own for the first time since the
accident.
He was walking, albeit hesitantly and only very briefly within a few more
days. He goes back to the bone crunching voodoo herbalist witch doctor
every two to three months now, and can't wait to get in the door. Dogs
are
SO ****ing credulous.

IMO, your tale only proves that not all vets pratice at the same level of
aggression with respect to trauma.

Actually, it also demonstrates that one anecdote is pretty much as good as
another. Moreover, in my experience, first hand anecdotes are
overwhelmingly positive. Aside from what I've read here on ROFF, I have
NEVER heard anyone relate a personal chiropractic horror story. It is
neither odd nor surprising that it is typically when one gets the story at
third or fourth hand that some poor ******* has been broken in half and
somebody lost the parts......that's the way horror stories grow. Also
interesting is the fact that most such stories are attributed, in their
original form, to someone at the periphery of the medical professions. Not
doctors, mind you (someone would remember a doctor's name, and he or she
could theoretically be tracked down......and there ARE libel laws), but
someone's sister in law who happens to be a surgical nurse or blah, blah.

However, I'm glad that the dog recovered.

So am I. So is Becky. So is the voodoo witch doctor. So, presumably, is
Cullen.

As I said, to me chiropractic equates to new age voodoo stirred
with shamanism.

Hm.....sort of like carving off a piece of yourself to appease the spirits
and flaunting the stump.....that the sort of thing, you mean?

If it works for someone else, so be it.

So let it be written.

I will not address
a chiropractor as "Dr." nor trust any member of my family to such therapy.

One suspects that a good few of them wouldn't much give a **** if you
addressed them at all. Do you decide for your family whom they will
marry.....where they take their cars for repairs.....what they will have for
supper?

To paraphrase, it is amazing how many people who visit chiropractors are
cured the day their insurance benefits expire.

People without insurance can often get in to see a chiropractor.....and get
some relief.....for twenty or thirty bucks. Most doctors wouldn't **** on
them if they were on fire for that kind of money.

YMMV.

Yeah, that'll happen to thinking people.

Wolfgang

Wolfgang:
I have NEVER heard anyone relate a personal chiropractic horror story.

I can cite locations, offending practitioner, and the whole litany in
private. I will not do so on a public forum as I previously indicated. One
reason for you not having heard many or any first-hand stories is that often
the patient doesn't recognize that they have been mistreated and the
physicians who clean up the mess won't tell them that their problem is now
iatrogenic because of those libel laws.

If you believe in chiropractic, may you have a long and profitable
relationship with one or many. But I suggest you take the theory of spinal
subluxations to a neurosurgeon for his opinion of "spinal manipulation."

Do you decide for your family whom they will
marry.....where they take their cars for repairs.....what they will have
for supper?

If I'm cooking, yes, the decision about supper is mine.

People without insurance can often get in to see a chiropractor.....and get
some relief.....for twenty or thirty bucks. Most doctors wouldn't **** on
them if they were on fire for that kind of money.

That may well have to do with the fact that many DC's are IMO even more
money hungry than MD's.



--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Darkstar

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

"slenon" wrote in message
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Wolfgang:
I have NEVER heard anyone relate a personal chiropractic horror
story.

I can cite locations, offending practitioner, and the whole litany
in
private. I will not do so on a public forum as I previously
indicated.

O.k., send 'em along. Please include names, phone numbers and email
addresses of victims and offending practitioners. It would also be
helpful to know which victims and offenders go together.

One
reason for you not having heard many or any first-hand stories is
that often
the patient doesn't recognize that they have been mistreated and the
physicians who clean up the mess won't tell them that their problem
is now
iatrogenic because of those libel laws.

So, we got God knows how many thousands of these mescreants maiming
untold millions of people all over the Western world, and there ain't
goddmaned thing anybody can do about it. huh? Well, how remarkably
convenient for them.

If you believe in chiropractic,

Believe in? What does that mean?

may you have a long and profitable
relationship with one or many.

So far as I can recall, I have never spoken to or had any other sort
of communication with a chiropractor. However, I like the idea of
making a profit. If it's not too much trouble, could you please tell
me how you would go about getting money from them? Seems to me it
might be kinda hard if one dare not even speak their names (or even,
presumably, portions thereof) in public.

But I suggest you take the theory of spinal
subluxations to a neurosurgeon for his opinion of "spinal
manipulation."

A neurosurgeon.....hm.....sounds like an idea. And where would a boy
find one of those?

Do you decide for your family whom they will
marry.....where they take their cars for repairs.....what they will
have
for supper?

If I'm cooking, yes, the decision about supper is mine.

Well, be sure to wash your head before handling foodstuffs........we
know where it's been, don't we?

People without insurance can often get in to see a
chiropractor.....and get
some relief.....for twenty or thirty bucks. Most doctors wouldn't
**** on
them if they were on fire for that kind of money.

That may well have to do with the fact that many DC's are IMO even
more
money hungry than MD's.

Uh huh, and you've certainly demonstrated the value of your opinions.


Wolfgang
who eagerly awaits the promised information.

"Wolfgang" wrote...
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Well, be sure to wash your head before handling foodstuffs........we
know where it's been, don't we?

Is that copyrighted?
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

"Tim J." wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote...
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Well, be sure to wash your head before handling
foodstuffs........we
know where it's been, don't we?

Is that copyrighted?

Not to the best of my knowledge.

Wolfgang