We doctors believe in ourselves and believed in what we have learned. Most of the time we need this in order to have the courage and the convincing power to ask a patient to go into surgery. Because of this, it is very difficult for us to accept a new dimension of treatment if it was never taught in our medical curricula. Peptic ulcer for instance. It was only a few years ago that the dictum of ulcer pathology was changed to a infectious one. It is caused by a bacteria: H.PYLORI. We never learned that in medical school. It took sometime for us to adopt to the new thinking.
I never heard of CHIROPRACTIC MEDICINE in my medical school days. Either my professors never heard of it or they just kept mum about it. But what a surprise. When I was able to hear and listen about Chiropractic medicine, my mind was opened to a new dimension of healthcare. I used to refer my spinal stenotic patients to Orthopedics or neurosurgery for treatment. Disc pathology I thought was included in the realm of surgical procedures. Then, here comes CHIROPRACTIC MEDICINE.
I had a lot of patients who underwent a lot of orthopedic referrals without any relief. Then, with my new knowledge of CHIROPRACTIC medicine, I was able to find relief for them. Foremost in my mind is to find them relief from pain and analgesics and anti-inflammatories never provided them.
If only we could be opened to other modalities like holistic medicine of India; herbal medicine of China or even the voodoo practices of Dominican Republic just for the sake of the patient.
I never heard of CHIROPRACTIC MEDICINE in my medical school days. Either my professors never heard of it or they just kept mum about it. But what a surprise. When I was able to hear and listen about Chiropractic medicine, my mind was opened to a new dimension of healthcare. I used to refer my spinal stenotic patients to Orthopedics or neurosurgery for treatment. Disc pathology I thought was included in the realm of surgical procedures. Then, here comes CHIROPRACTIC MEDICINE.
I had a lot of patients who underwent a lot of orthopedic referrals without any relief. Then, with my new knowledge of CHIROPRACTIC medicine, I was able to find relief for them. Foremost in my mind is to find them relief from pain and analgesics and anti-inflammatories never provided them.
If only we could be opened to other modalities like holistic medicine of India; herbal medicine of China or even the voodoo practices of Dominican Republic just for the sake of the patient.
These comment are again an example of the unique quality of health care you offer to your patients. You seek to find the most affordable and most effective kind of care available for a patient. You strive to follow a code of ethics and morality that are absent in many aspects of life in our culture.
ReplyDeleteChiropractic is now an accepted and licensed profession in the Philippines. All practicing chiropractors are required by Philippine law to be certified and licensed by the Department of Health. Chiropractors are required to have graduated from specific approved chiropractic/medical school. Chiropractic is a specialty of which other medical professionals can be certified. The Philippines has adopted the World Health Organizations standards for chiropractic practice. A Chiropractor is required to have a BS, DC, and serve a residency. Philippine regulations allow a MD to receive his DC certification after serving an additional one year of a combination of classroom units and residency.
The Philippine Public must be alert to the fact there are scammers in Davao and the Philippines whom call themselves a chiropractor. Many of these individual are people whom have only watched a YouTube video on the Internet. These individuals think that qualifies them to call themselves a chiropractor. Because there is little enforcement of the law in the Philippines. The public is not protected from these scammers. The public has to be alert to this fact and protect themselves from those individuals whom prey upon public.
Currently there is only ONE Philippine certified chiropractor on Mindanao.