Operation ” Response-Able”, part II
is not health care. It is sick care. Health care is designed to restore, maintain, and enhance health. Drugs and surgery may save your life in an emergency, but will never make you healthy, and medicine must recognize its limitations.”
We admonished the media and pharmico-medical business that they would do better to report on the grave matters mentioned above, which are much more urgent than the alleged dangers of chiropractic care. And they should spend more time investigating and reporting the latest and real breakthroughs in research that reveal the scientific basis for the proven and clear cut effectiveness, economy, safety of, and patient satisfaction with chiropractic care: rather than the plethora of “exciting,” “amazing,” and “heroic” medical “breakthroughs” promising a cure (always just on the horizon, hmmmm) for this or that (if they could have just a little more time and a lot more money).
We closed our broadcast with the reminder that the chiropractic profession remains willing to work with any scientifically based practitioner, but we eschew the pseudo-science, which is based on modern medicine’s ill-considered presupposition that if something cannot be explained (to their satisfaction, of course), it therefore cannot exist and damn the results.
We assured the audience that doctors of chiropractic get along perfectly well with other types of practitioners when the patient’s well being is the first priority, rather than who “owns” or gets to “treat” the patient.
“Second Opinion” has been “response-able” like this directly to the public within a matter of days to every major attack on chiropractic in the last four years, while continuing to educate, entertain, and bring more patients and legislators to chiropractic as a result.
When the “20/20” pediatric story came out, we went directly to the public and put Drs. Larry Webster and Palmer Pete on “Second Opinion.” We helped Dr. Debra Majors go directly to the public when “20/20” distorted her statements in a previous program.
Routinely, “Second Opinion” opens up a whole new listening audience for chiropractic with such chiropractic luminaries as Drs. Chester Wilk, Joe Flesia, Malik Slosberg, John Lowe, Jeff Rockwell, Lou Sportelli, Dick Versendaal, and Ted Koren. We’ve presented important authors (Barbara Loe Fisher, Dean Black, and Neil Miller), chiropractic supporters (David Chapman-Smith, George McAndrews), and legislators, etc. We answer questions about chiropractic from callers (including allopathors), and hear from enthusiastic chiropractic patients just calling in to tell their own chiropractic story.
Consider the impact on everyone’s practice and politics of having “Second Opinion” in every city and state, entertaining and educating patients, making it possible for chiropractors to focus on their practices, while chiropractic itself goes directly to the public. And if necessary, call the medics to task and putting them on the carpet for a change, but always with an upbeat focus on telling the chiropractic story, through an American Chiropractic Radio Network. Consider the possibilities.
This war on chiropractic is just heating up. To quote the ICA: “There can be no doubt that the chiropractic profession will be subjected to an ongoing barrage of critical news reports and broadcasts in the coming months … highly misleading and critical stories about chiropractic are proliferating.”
To quote the ACA: “Across the nation, the chiropractic profession is taking a bashing. Sensational stories in the media, … all of them aimed at portraying the chiropractic profession in the worst possible light.”
Chiropractors can no longer remain silent, without also being guilty by omission of the tragic and unnecessary carnage that goes on in this country in the name of health care in spite of the good intentions of many MDs.
Dr. Chester Wilk said this on “Second Opinion”: “If we could get 500 chiropractors on the air like you Dr. Roberds, telling it like it is, we would take over the health industry!”
Yet most doctors do not have either the time, money, experience, or inclination to set up a professional production team: to do the investigating, researching, documenting, booking, programming, producing, and hosting, all necessary to create a program of which all chiropractors can be proud; then take the heat, run a successful practice, and have a rewarding family life, as well. Doctors have enough to do.
We face a moral battle and struggle for survival that can no longer be avoided. Why chiropractors sit back and take the medical establishment’s slandering when medicine’s Achilles’ heel is so exposed and chiropractic has such overpowering ammunition at its disposal for winning this battle? It staggers the imagination. What are some chiropractors afraid of, that the medics will strike them