Are you interested in working in a Catholic health care facility? As many of you know, Catholic health care is one of the world's largest private deliverers' of health services. Today we find many health care institutions evaluating the role of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as it relates to their services and their mission.
Since chiropractic is the leader in alternative care, we are primed to enter into a dialogue with Catholic-sponsored health care facilities. To enter this arena, a provider (you don't have to be Catholic to be employed or contracted) must agree with the mission ideals of such facilities.
The mission content of Catholic health care has a ministry as its foundation, with values that establish its vision and set its direction. The goal of Catholic health care leaders is to see a community-based, integrated delivery network become a reality through its mission values.
The Ministry's Values in Catholic Health Care
Reference
A Workbook for Building Relationships with Physicians. Catholic Health Association, St. Louis, Missouri.
Karen Shields-Wright, MS,DC
President, Association for
Catholic Chiropractors
Greenwich,Connecticut
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.
