Sunday’s Los Angeles Times featured a front page article titled “Risk Was Known as FDA OKd Fatal Drug.” According to the article, documents now show that a drug company was aware of the life-threatening risks involved in using a product they were bringing to market yet they still received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval….
By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Thank you to Dr. Jeff Ptak and Cookie Fischer for contributing information for this article. In June, a group of chiropractors will be heading down to Havana, Cuba for a chiropractic mission to that country which will coincide with a special education symposium. Dr. Jeff Ptak has been invited to speak…
This week we have had 3 Patients prepay for care. One prepaid for one year, another prepaid for the whole family for one year, and the last prepaid for 2 months. So many of you ask me how I get patients to prepay for their Chiropractic Care.
Powersource Success Tips From Dr. Shawn Powers Thanks to all of you who have contacted me wondering if you have been taken off my mailing list. I appreciate knowing the value you receive from the success tips and that you have been missing them so much. I am back! The demands of my growing practices,…
Hello all, As many of you may know, the offices of Planet Chiropractic are located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. What many don’t know is that downtown LA is also the home of many of Hollywoods most popular movie sets. Several times a week film crews are outside my windows (literally) and today…
Have you ever wondered how we ended up in a healthcare system that is riddled with errors and inconsistencies, priced beyond everyone’s means, centered on the use of toxic chemicals and with a track record of iatrogenic injuries that is beyond the carnage of all our wars?
By Stew Bittman, D.C. I just returned from the ICA Membership Convention in San Francisco, and it was a bit eerie. Not only was the crowd small and the energy akin to a wake, there was hardly anyone there that I knew! Very strange. I’m glad I went, though. I got my 12 hours! I…
By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Greetings all,I’m working on several upcoming articles and your input is greatly appreciated in helping me to better present the information to our readers. I have listed a few of the articles below along with some of the questions that are being asked. I have provided email links so that you…
Headlines from today’s MSNBC news feeds read “U.S. health-care system tangled maze – Overhaul needed to bring 21st century care to patients.” The Institute of medicine (IOM) has recently released their follow-up report to the “ground breaking” 1999 announcement that medical mistakes “kill from 44,000 98,000 hospitalized Americans each year.” The article suggests that the…
According to a recent article on Yahoo News, individuals suffering from severe back pain or muscle pain are reportedly getting little relief from the drugs they take and are pretty much dissatisfied with the medical attention that they get. The article focuses on a survey in which 96 percent said they suffered from some sort…
By Sal Martingano, D.C. Have you ever wondered how we ended up in a healthcare system that is riddled with errors and inconsistencies, priced beyond everyone’s means, centered on the use of toxic chemicals and with a track record of iatrogenic injuries that is beyond the carnage of all our wars? What happened to the…