As per usual, your redirect to chiro base, does not work without manipulation, then you find it is our old friend Stephen Barrett, not a real chiropractor talking about chiropractic, but one of the worlds most famous anti everything natural or non medical society approved hate mongers. It is a bit reminicent of the old meeting of the national medical convention in which one of the national presidents said that it was better to die under orthodox medical care than to get well under alternative care. Doc, all docs are indeed docs when so licensed or degreed, and deserve to be called doctors, including DCs, NDs, PhDs , DOs, ODs, DPMs, and MDs and the list goes on.
Point being that lifestyle is the single most important factor in most peoples health, Chiropractic and naturopathy recognized and were teaching that in the 1950s when the president of the California Medical Association was on bill boards above the freeways, cigarette in hand, with “a cigarette a day keeps the doctor away” sign below his smiling face. Somewhat karmicly that MD died of lung cancer.
There is an increasing tendency for MDs and DCs to share offices and clinics. I had hospital privilages twenty years ago, and found working with the doctors to be a much better situation. It really is time patients begin to come first and bickering and prejudice take a back seat. Unfortunately I moved and in other cities, chiropractors did not have hospital privilages at that time or even now. What would be good, is a little respect, honesty and willingness to work in a scientific manner togethar for the benefit of patients.
As you note, enemas have been used for thousands of years, with almost no negative effects, and you cannot find a single scientific article to explain why their use is suddenly out of fashion. I pointed out two to you yet you dont seem to be able to find them even knowing the year they were written, all you have to do is find the journal. Most medical schools have these journals if you are near a major city, so do some reading. It would be good for you, to try to increase your level of knowledge in this area. If you are near by, perhaps for a small fee I could guide you to the shelves where the books and journals are located in your medical school library. Enemas are not dangerous unless the nurse or doctor does not know what they are doing, and in our discussions, it is apparent that in this area your education is not really up to it, so if you don’t want to use them, that is understandable.
However, you should not be telling others who do know what they are doing, and are amply trained and knowledgable in the field what to do. Naturopaths and Chiropractors have education in this area, MDs usually do not. So I appreciate your offer for your profession to bow out of colon therapy and other areas in which you are not as well trained as chiropractors or naturopaths. However, I fear that you do not speak with the authority to bind your profession.
