While we have been watching our comrades in the United Kingdom and Australia battle the enemy within the profession our own dark forces in the United States have been quietly boiling the frog slowly.

Drugs have been introduced into the professional scope, the profession has been tiered, and the first Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine program has been accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education. Have you heard the outrage? Didn’t think so.

However, it’s not over. The final nail in the proverbial coffin will occur in just a few weeks when the comment period for the new accreditations standards for the Council on Chiropractic Education closes. If you have not heard what’s happening here is a VERY brief summary:

• The new language allows the CCE to accredit any program it wants as long as it’s considered “equivalent”. This is related to Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine programs.
• Any and all references to subluxation have been removed from the new standards.
• According to the new standards, chiropractic is no longer “without the use of drugs and surgery”
• The definition for primary care physician does not define anything unique to chiropractic and applies to any primary care medical provider

If you understand what this means for the profession and have been playing along at home connecting the dots then you will want to make sure you give the CCE your two cents before the comment period closes. The profession needs to document that it was in widespread disagreement with these new standards.

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Click Here to Voice your Comments to the CCE:

This is it folks. All the ranting and raving over the past few years about how this profession has lost its way and was on a slow slide to marginalization and absorption by allopathy has come to a head. We can either let it happen or put a stop to it.

What will you do?

As always I look forward to your feedback, comments and suggestions.

Matthew McCoy DC, MPH
matthewmccoy@comcast.net
Editor - Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health - Chiropractic
www.chiropracticpediatricresearch.net