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Happy 65th Year Anniversary CMCC!

By John Wiens DC|October 15, 2010|News|

Source Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College

CMCC On September 18, 1945, CMCC first opened its doors at 252 Bloor Street West, realizing the dreams of a dedicated group of individuals from across Canada – the Dominion Council of Chiropractors. Their hard work came to fruition as CMCC welcomed what would become the Class of 1949, many of whom were veterans returning from WW II.

CMCC will be celebrating this milestone year throughout 2010, while welcoming the Class of 2014. This year also marks the opening of high technology learning laboratories, which bring together technological advancements including manipulation sensing tables and Gaumard simulated patients, to provide opportunities for diagnostic and clinical skills development and assessment. CMCC is the first chiropractic program to use the Gaumard mannequins presently in use by medical schools throughout the world.

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ACA Brings Chiropractic Perspective to New High-Profile Consumer Health Care Web site

By John Wiens DC|October 14, 2010|News|

Source The American Chiropractic Association

The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) today announced that it is one of several content partners participating in Sharecare, a new Web site created by Internet entrepreneur Jeff Arnold, the originator of WebMD, and Dr. Mehmet Oz, a leading cardiac surgeon, health expert and host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” along with Harpo Studios, HSW International, Sony Pictures Television and Discovery Communications. (more…)

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September 18th – Happy 115th Anniversary

By John Wiens DC|September 18, 2010|History|

Harvey Lillard
These excerpts are taken directly from Dr. Joe Keating’s raw notes which can be found in the Chiro Org History Archive

1895 (Sept): Chiropractic is “discovered” by D.D. Palmer (The Chiropractor, 1904, p. ii)
1895 (Sept 18): “On September 18, 1895, Harvey Lillard called upon Dr. Palmer” (The Chiropractor, 1904, p. 11)
1896 (Jan-Apr): According to Harvey Lillard’s testimonial in the January, 1897 issue (p. 3) of The Chiropractic, he didn’t learn of Palmer’s new science until January of 1896, and received two treatments for his deafness between January and April of 1896

DEAF SEVENTEEN YEARS
I was deaf 17 years and I expected to always remain so, for I had doctored a great deal without any benefit. I had long ago made up my mind to not take any more ear treatments, for it did me no good. Last January Dr. Palmer told me that my deafness came from an injury in my spine. This was new to me; but it is a fact that my back was injured at the time I went deaf. Dr. Palmer treated me on the spine; in two treatments I could hear quite well. That was eight months ago. My hearing remains good.
HARVEY LILLARD, 320 W. Eleventh St., Davenport, Iowa

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Chiropractic Associations Describe Chiropractic Care Using Conventional Terminology

By John Wiens DC|September 16, 2010|Guidelines|

Source The American Chiropractic Association

The Council on Chiropractic Guidelines and Practice Parameters (CCGPP), with assistance from the American Chiropractic Association (ACA), has established terminology that describes chiropractic care using conventionally recognized terminology across the accepted continuum of care. The terminology was established by a formal consensus process conducted in early 2009.

The chiropractic profession is making great strides with integration among health care providers and insurers. Doctors of chiropractic now practice in many military and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sites, in hospital settings and in a variety of integrated practice models. As our nation’s health care landscape changes and the primary care shortage becomes more acute, the stage will be set for even more integration of doctors of chiropractic among other health care providers—traditional and alternative. Therefore, it is vital that the scope of appropriate chiropractic care be clearly defined relative to overall patient case management. (more…)

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The Concierge Practice

By John Wiens DC|September 16, 2010|Health Care|

Sources: Modern Medicine, How to set up a concierge practice
The Health Care Blog

Doc, you realize your office is a lot like Disney World,” an unhappy patient quipped to Mark R. Wheeler, an internist in Louisville. “It’s a three-hour wait for a 20-second ride.”

“That comment spoke volumes about what was going on in my practice,” says Wheeler. “I was always behind. My patients weren’t happy, and neither were my staff, my family, or me.”

Today, Wheeler is a changed man, calling his partner, internist John Varga, and himself “two of the luckiest physicians on the face of this earth.”

The turning point came last September when the two physicians officially opened OneMD—a retainer or concierge-style practice that caps the number of patients at 300 per doctor. In return for a $4,000 annual fee ($6,000 per couple), patients get 24/7 access, reduced in-office waiting time, house calls, an enhanced yearly health exam, and other gold-plated services not generally covered by insurers. About 200 patients to date have enrolled—and the practice is “right on the fringe” of profitability.

“We don’t claim to be practicing better medicine,” says Wheeler, “but the fact that we can spend more time with our patients means they’re going to get better care.” (more…)

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The Council on Chiropractic Education Accreditation Standards Draft for 2012

By John Wiens DC|September 14, 2010|Guidelines|

In the 2012 draft of the Council on Chiropractic Education’s Accreditation Standards one of the bullet points in their mission statement reads, “Serving as a unifying body for the chiropractic profession.”

In a September 1st, 2010 document to interested parties on the Life West Chiropractic College website titled “A discussion of a limited number of changes in the CCE’s 2007 version of the Standards for Doctor of Chiropractic programs and proposed revisions to the same”, college president Dr. Gerald Clum seems to disagree with that statement. He summarizes his concerns thusly,

Concern: The items outlined above indicate an attempt to move the profession:

Toward the Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine perspective

Away from any use of the term subluxation

Toward the inclusion of drug therapy

Away from being a drugless discipline

Toward a generalized common definition of primary care as used in primary care medicine

Away from any definition of chiropractic and what a chiropractor does

And so, the thorny issue of unity never goes away. Do we move forward into a world that knows only “chiropractic medicine” or do we maintain that chiropractic is and always should be “separate and distinct”? Or, can we have it both ways? One thing is sure. If we continue to confound the public as to our identity we will never see the numbers of patients to which we believe we are entitled.

Relevant documents…

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About John Wiens DC

Happy 65th Year Anniversary CMCC!

ACA Brings Chiropractic Perspective to New High-Profile Consumer Health Care Web site

September 18th – Happy 115th Anniversary

Chiropractic Associations Describe Chiropractic Care Using Conventional Terminology

The Concierge Practice

The Council on Chiropractic Education Accreditation Standards Draft for 2012