The schools, for one, are a major factor. There is no doubt that they have given up on their chiropractic emphasis. Part of that is due to the accreditation pressures put upon them. Whatever the reason, there is more medicine being taught in chiropractic colleges than there is chiropractic. Consequently, the student coming out of a chiropractic college is practicing more drugless medicine than chiropractic.
Money is a second factor.
Chiropractors seem to be more interested in knowing how to fill out an insurance form than in knowing the chiropractic philosophy. They are more interested in whether their technique is impressive in the courtroom than whether it corrects vertebral subluxation. Chiropractors seem more interested in impressing the patient with the fact that they are real doctors than in teaching the patient about the principles and philosophy of chiropractic. There is nothing wrong with money. There is nothing wrong with insurance, techniques or professionalism.