Our Nov. 4, 1996 issue reported that the stylebook of U.S. News & World Report did not contain a reference for doctor of chiropractic, although they did contain MD and DDS references.
We encouraged DCs to write U.S. News about this oversight, and also wrote our own letter. The response to our letter, and of letters from other DCS, came from the chief of the news desk, Robert Grover.
The gist of the responses from the news desk chief to us and those DCs who wrote was: "... the role of our stylebook, .... is not to provide an exhaustive list of professions and titles, but rather to give our writers an example of how such titles are handled."
In Mr. Grover's letter to DC, he added:
"We are now preparing the eighth edition of the stylebook, due to be published in early 1997, and we will certainly take into consideration your suggestions about titles ..."Mr. Grover is at least familiar with chiropractic, as we learned in his letter to N. Max Atnip, DC, of Cookeville, Tennessee:
"I am familiar with chiropractic, having personally benefited from such care for more than 20 years, and my conversations with practitioners and observations over the years have given me some understanding of the difficulties the profession faces as a result of ignorance and antipathy from without."
It will be interesting to see if the editors of the eight edition of the U.S. News stylebook take our suggestion to heart.
Many relevant diagnostic signs are not performed deliberately by the examiner or by the patient at the examiner’s direction. They are observed as the patient reacts to their condition. Fortin’s finger sign, Minor’s sign, and Vanzetti’s sign are three examples of this principle.
Spearheaded by burgeoning scientific and clinical research literature, psychedelics have reached a level of media coverage and popular interest that has not been seen for over half a century. By “psychedelics,” we are referring to the unique class of substances that includes psilocybin (the active compound found in so-called “magic mushrooms”), LSD, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ayahuasca, 5-MeO-DMT, and mescaline – each of which occurs in the natural world (except for LSD, which is a semi-synthetic compound).
While working at the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, N.M., one of the primary care physicians stated that imaging every patient prior to receiving chiropractic was not medically necessary. It was at that point I reconsidered the need for the imaging of every patient to avoid malpractice.
