You have to laugh. Questions are being asked by real sceptics about the medical regulator ten years after Shipman. Is the GMC fit for purpose? 75 allegation have been made against surgeon David Jackson from 16 different patients going back to 2006 and the GMC has not held a hearing yet. Mr Jackson has...
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Tags: GCC, GMC, Margaret Coats
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I have got involved with a very interesting discussion on Linkedin on the relevance of the subluxation to chiropractic. The discussion moved on to “chiropractors needs cultural authority” like the osteopaths in the US and this point of view was supported by an interview given by Richard Brown in the Austrialia After the Storm...
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Tags: Simon Singh, subluxation theory
Posted in The Vertebral Subluxation Complex Theory. | 9 Comments »
6 Medical Myths Even Your Doctor May Still Believe. By Dr Robert Kornfeld Huffington Post November 2011 "The more things change, the more they stay the same." This couldn’t be truer of our health care delivery system. As a practicing physician for more than 30 years, I have experienced firsthand the explosion of...
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Tags: Robert Kornfeld
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I would not want anybody to miss CAM expo this weekend at Earls Court exhibition Centre. The promo for the event states “make sure you are there for the UK’s only dedicated event to the complementary, natural and integrated healthcare sector. With more exhibitors, more education and more associations than ever before it’s not...
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Tags: Maragret Coats
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Obviously she got a glowing reference from Peter Dixon et al as they thought she had done a great job bringing the chiropractic profession to its knees now she is to turn her attention to Alexander technique, Aromatherapy, Bowen, Hypnotherapy,Massage,Naturopathy, reflexology, etc etc and do the same to them. Like Coats, Greg Price was...
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Tags: Maragret Coats
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A few months ago I got a call asking me to blog about a scandal that was unfolding at WIOC. A slush fund had been set up at Glamorgan as a perk to supplement the income of tutors. Presumably its tax free and its an incentive to work there by funding tutors BCA membership,...
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Tags: David Byfield, Welsh Institute of Chiropractic
Posted in UK Chiropractic Associations | 9 Comments »
Those of you following the recent FIFA revelations may have noticed the similarities with other regulatory bodies. Peter Dixon did not do very well in the 2007 elections in England. Yet was re- appointed Chairman of the council without anyone voting for him on the new council. When the government decided to reform the...
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At about two in the afternoon, on November 21, 1920, the players of Tipperary lined up for a team photograph before the match against Dublin. At the rear three good friends from the village of Grangemokler stand side by side, In the centre my grandfather Richard (Dick) Lanigan, to his left Gerry Shelly and ...
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Tags: Bloody Sunday, cancer
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The CHRE have published their annual report on the health regulatory bodies they regulate. Below are the CHRE conclusions about the General Osteopathic Council way of regulating for 2010 and their entire report for the GCC. Skeptic complaints about GOC members did not get out of their Investigating committee because they could see they...
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Tags: chre, GOC
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For many including myself the person who talked most sense regarding the BCA decision to sue the BCA was legal blogger Jack of Kent. He was a “master” of his subject so when he made a pronouncement on the skeptic movement on his blog that skeptics were just “another cult”, I had no reason...
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Tags: jack-of-kent, scepticism
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