Date: 3-19-04
Re: [Chiropractic_Uncensored] Re: Dr. Terry Rondberg
By the way, I'm glad you found this discussion interesting and I think you are right that such dialog helps others understand the issues. For that reason, I'll be sharing the posts with the profession in an upcoming issue of The Chiropractic Journal. It should be a fascinating read.
Hi Buddy.
Cool -- you're all going to be published 
Rondberg is holding his own very well, I think. That's the way it is with those who are chiropractically comfortable and chiropractically comatose. You do your thing and I'll do mine --or you do whatever you want to do so that I can do what _I_ believe. Trouble is, science isn't a two-way street where someone scratches your round-earth back so that that they can then use their flat-earth model. They are not equivalent positions merely because they are opinions held by two different individuals.
Currently, "chiropractic" is just a collection of opinions about how the world would work if it was designed and operated by a chiropractor. "Subluxation," in fact, is whatever a chiropractor says it is -- or isn't, I suppose. Rondberg advocates for this free-for-all of opinion and even feels sorry for you that yours --in his opinion-- isn't very "chiropractic." But, your opinion is every bit as good (and bad) as his. And, isn't that just the problem in a Chiropractic Byzantium? Take a look.
Remember, the ACA also argues _their_ version of Subluxation. I can see that you're thinking ahead about who chiropractors might be once they can no longer sell this Robber of Health and Demon of Disease. You're going to offer life-style counseling with some idea this will distinguish you as a doctor. I've heard this from some chiropractors anxious about finding a niche in the marketplace. I'm not sure this will be enough to justify a separate and entire profession in a society with limited health care resources, though. But, hey -- who's counting, really
If it means anything to you, and if there was a significant difference between a chiropractor, Rondberg, and a chiropractor, Dr. T, in the larger scheme of medical things, I'd lean in the direction you want to take the profession and your life as a chiropractor. But, in case you hadn't noticed, chiropractic chemistry is a two-way reaction --with reactants and products moving the reaction both to the right AND left, with nearly equal energy. Notably, it's largely "endothermic," if you know what I mean.
Pappy.