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An Urgent Call to the Profession – LIFE

Dr. Drew Rubin (Life ’89) and Dr. Lisa Rubin, Ph. D.
Adjunct Professors, Life University
Fellow Chiropractic Warriors

June 2002 will forever be known as a decisive, pivotal moment in chiropractic. Your action or inaction will contribute either to the rise of philosophical, subluxation based chiropractic to the forefront, or its eventual demise, as our profession follows the same path of the osteopath. The choice is yours.

The students of Life University rallied behind a cause that is bigger than them. Almost 300 students marched to their US Senators office with this statement:

Our goal as the student body of Life University, College of Chiropractic, is to have our accreditation reaffirmed before the end of the current appeal process. We recognize that there are differences of opinion among the student body as to which specific course of action should be pursued. However the students have made a united stand to ensure the viability of this institution and its devotion to public service, not only for the sake of the current students but also for the generations of students to come. With this goal in mind, we the student body, request a congressional inquiry into our accreditation proceedings.

Chiropractic as we know it is about to change if we do not take action today. Do you want it to become a 12 visit, Mercy Document, portal of entry referral source for the medical profession, in which our role is a form of triage before the patient goes off to see a specialist? Do you want to see families, kids, and pregnant women on weekly lifetime maintenance care a thing of the past? Do you want to see religious exemptions for mandatory vaccinations be repealed, state by state? Do you want to see home birthing become completely illegal? (Who do you think is fighting for this stuff?) This is bigger than Dr. Sid and bigger than Life University. This is the “Big Idea” that is being challenged. What if the profession REALLY DOES need your help?

As faculty members of Life University, we have seen 1st hand all that has transpired. We did all that the CCE has asked us to do, up to and including hiring their recommended consultants to lead us through this. We jumped through all the hoops, and still this was not enough. NOTHING would have been enough for the CCE, this time.

There is an old story about the Holocaust, and it goes like this: “They came for the Jews, but I’m not Jewish, so I didn’t speak up. They came for the blacks, but I’m not black, so I didn’t speak up. They came for the gypsies, but I’m not a gypsy, so I didn’t speak up. Then they came for me. And nobody was left to speak up.” Apathy, doing nothing, would be the biggest mistake of all right now.

We need you to please complete several tasks within the next 7-10 days:

1) Call your US Senators and Congresspeople, and tell them to request a full congressional inquiry into the CCE proceedings. We want to place the burden on the CCE to prove that what they did was totally justified. We also want to force an injunction on the CCE’s decision against Life University and stop them from any further action planned against other colleges until the outcome of this issue is decided.

2) Call the Dept of Education, the government organization who the CCE answers to (703-367-0156, or 202-219-7011). Ask them about the same issues as in #1. We suspect foul play and want a full investigation and injunction.

3) Call your philosophically based state organizations, and ask them to rally every member and every political connection they have to inquire into this decision.

4) Start sending emails, faxes, phone calls, to every US politician you know, and have your patients do the same. Flood the US Senate, US Congress, and US Dept of Education with requests to look into this matter so that they know they have to investigate it.

BJ Palmer once said that he gave us “a sacred trust. Guard it well.” And how apropos when he announced, “You never know how far reaching what you may think, say or do can affect the lives of millions tomorrow.” What will you do? The choice is yours.

planetc1.com-news @ 7:19 am | Article ID: 1024064361

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