Redirecting the “Misdirected Faith”

A Yahoo News headline reads “Emergency Doctors Often Misuse Antibiotics” According to the article, emergency room doctors are “inappropriately prescribing antibiotics” leading to even greater risks of drug-resistant infections. A national survey revealed that during a one year period, one quarter of patients receiving antibiotics from emergency doctors had nothing more than a common cold,…

I just came home from the office. I did my New Patient Orientation tonight and I am flying. I usually don’t look forward to doing Orientation. I have done it hundreds and hundreds of times but by the time I’m done each week, I can’t believe I even had that thought earlier in the night. I come home flying.

The Los Angeles Lakers are 2009 NBA Champions! Today’s Game 5 against the Orlando Magic was won by a score of 99-86. That ends the NBA Finals series, with the Lakers winning four out of the last five games. There was some question about a Lakers Parade in Los Angeles this week, but it looks like it’s moving forward. We had closed our chiropractic office for the 2001 Lakers Parade, and the 2002 Lakers Parade, so consider this a 3peat for us. Many patients in our office are Lakers fans, so we may as well be celebrating together in the streets.

Apparently in the 1970s there was a swine flu media campaign intended to convince people of all ages to get flu shots. Two commercials, which are available for viewing online, demonstrate how flu shots were marketed to the general public in 1976. The announcer in the commercial warns that a swine flu epidemic may be coming, and it could make you very sick.

Around October 23rd I received an e-mail from someone representing the network operations department that hosts web servers for Planet Chiropractic. It was one of those e-mails that would likely not be welcomed by many as it results in us investing a significant amount of money towards greater resources for the web site and related hosting servers.

The consensus among popular Hollywood celebrities is that voting is absurd, voting is ridiculous, and you should not vote. Continue playing Scrabble, online poker, watching porn, or whatever it is you do while at your computer. Don’t believe me? Think I’m making it up? Check out this video and tell five of your friends.