Chiropractic IS Safe!!

OK, I'm ticked off. Normally I try to bring something that you can use to help make you more healthy, especially naturally and with chiropractic care. But ,I got my fill of negative chiropractic propaganda on a TV show this week. I'll unload more on that later.
This information is from the Journal of the American Medical Association, an article entitled Biogenic Medicine by Dr. Barbara Starfield talks about deaths from iatrogenic causes. Iatrogenic is defined as "induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner or therapy (especially a complication of treatment).
Deaths per year:
12,000 due to unnecessary surgery,
7,000 due to medical errors in hospitals,
20,000 due to other errors in hospitals,
80,000 due to infections in hospitals,
106,000 due to non error negative effects of drugs.
In a study dating from 1934 through 1999 there were ONLY 19 ( that's nineteen!!) TOTAL deaths due to chiropractic treatment. So, nearly 225,000 deaths every year due to some form of medical care as opposed 19 deaths in a 65 years period of time.
Why is it important to tell you this? One reason is to help you understand that chiropractic is safe. Another reason is to let you make your own decision as to who you want to believe.
TV shows have a tremendous impact on what people think and believe. Many years ago there was a TV show called LA Law. A very popular show about the glamorous side of being a lawyer. The year before it premiered the University of Georgia law school did not have enough applications to fill the 250 seats available for that years class. The year after the law shows first season the the UGA law school had 3000 applications for the 250 seats. TV has an impact. This past week there was a show on called "Bones". This is a forensic show solving murders. This particular episode had the murderer being a chiropractor. The murder weapon was an activator instrument. Just in the way the actors played out the plot was enough to scare an unsuspecting person to have concern of going to a chiropractor. I could picture a new patient in my office freaking out when I brought the activator instument to adjust them. Another show called "Two and A Half Men" has one of its main characters as being a chiropractor. Sadly he's a doofus. On one show his brother in the show uses his chiropractic office as a brothel stating that's all his chiropractic office is is a massage parlor. On ER a few years ago a statement was made by a doctor concerning a diagnosis made by a chiropractor of this particular patient. The patient had stated the chiropractor told her she had a scoliosis, the ER doctor sarcastically said "they tell everybody that". All of these disparaging comments and depictions of chiropractic is the tip of an iceberg. These show have to be sanctioned by someone with plenty of money. There are 700,000 md's in the US and only 60,000 chiropractors. 7 of the top 10 lobbyists in the US are medically oriented. They got money. These shows aren't slapping on chiropractic just for drama or laughs. This is all part of the old AMA guideline to "contain and eliminate the chiropractic profession". In other word they're doing it on purpose. Bill Cosby did have a great scene on his show one time when he, his wife and two friends were talking about going to the chiropractor. It was all positive. I have always felt that if a TV show such as a soap opera or a sitcom (like Bill Cosby) had a major character be a chiropractor, be the nice guy, family guy, the community leader, the great father and husband, we would see chiropractic offices fill up just like the UGA law school did. We don't need the ignorance of these writers and producers making chiropractic look bad for no good reason. Let the American Chiropractic Association or a chiropractor in practice have a say so of what is portrayed as chiropractic in thes shows. BE fair. Be honest. Hey!! I'm available.