All rights reserved. If you had told me 20 years ago that a time would come when chiropractors and physicians would be working together in common clinics, when they would collaborate on chiropractic research funded by the federal government, and when chiropractic services would be recommended by medical and national organizations, I would have said you were crazy. Again, my judgement was wrong. This book is a well-balanced, clear and detailed description of the chiropractic profession today.
Deep prejudice is hard to change.
I began medical school right after the case of Wilk vs. the American Medical Association was filed. In that case, a federal court found my profession guilty of a prolonged and systematic attempt to completely undermine the profession of chiropractic, often using highly dishonest methods. Paradoxically, I found that the climate at my medical school was even more distrustful of chiropractors after the Wilk case. The cognitive dissonance such prejudice produced was considerable, but I still kept my distance from chiropractors. Referral to a chiropractor was simply not in my repertoire of care.