Re: Fear Mongering in the Chiropractic Forum
A medical doctor has to pay over $100,000 in medical liability insurance each year while a chiropractor pays only a few thousand dollars. As with car insurance, medical insurance payments depend on how risky your practice of healthcare is to the patient. How often does a medical doctor make mistakes or in terms of car insurance, have accidents? It must be a lot if they have to pay over $100,000 per year. So whatever rumor you hear about chiropractors, make sure you look at the facts. It is a safe form of healthcare, otherwise no insurance company will cover their medical liability and if they do, it would be as high as the medical doctors.
Remember that you must never believe anything you hear or see unless you hear it from both sides. The news media is sponsored by pharmaceutical companies. Everytime you turn on the TV, you see a commercial for a new drug. It is in the news media's best interest to keep their customers happy and these customers are the pharmaceutal companies and the American Medical Association. Anything they can put on the news to smear chiropractors or other competing health professionals is much appreciated by these medical groups. If any news organizations published anything to praise chiropractors, they would face a backlash from pharmaceutical companies. Paid ads would be cancelled and these TV stations would lose millions in advertisements.
In short, this world of free press, is not really free press. All information that you receive must be sifted through and looked at closely from all angles. Be wise and think for yourself. Do not let others do it for you.
Every career you choose, there is always a risk of not finding a job in that field or not being successful in it. Success is up to the individual and each career has many talented people in it, so you must be at the top of your game if you want to be successful. This includes going to in the Chiropractic Career.
There are many successful chiropractors out there and there are many who have failed. Before entering into any career, you must talk to people who have both failed and succeeded in order to find out why they failed or why they succeeded.
Note: Why live a life of bitterness and hate. It is too short and will be gone within a blink of an eye.
Dan Yong