Most patient safety issues focus on the safety of chiropractic adjustments. While that's something patients give more thought to than DCs will ever know, there are other safety dynamics.
Intellectual safety is an important ingredient in the patient education process.
A common example in all too many offices is patients who are not permitted to discuss symptoms. These passionate chiropractors are working under the misguided notion that scolding a patient for discussing their symptoms will somehow force patients to see chiropractic as a wellness discipline. Instead, what the chiropractor has done is created a taboo topic that the patient can't talk about.