Nurse Operates, Doctor Accused
From Barcelona Spain comes an interesting little story about a nurse
who was allowed by a leading ophthalmologist in the city to perform surgeries. The
accusations stem mainly from account of the male nurse performing cataract removal
surgeries on patients. This story was reported in the British Medical Journal. The author
went on to report that this case was similar to one in Britain where a nursing sister was
disciplined for taking out a patients appendix.
"Wait Doctor Im Still Alive, Dont Kill
Me!"
More than 10,000 people of the Netherlands are saying this by carrying
what they call "Declaration of Life" cards or anti-euthanasia
"passports". It seems the public is becoming scared of over enthusiastic doctors
who are increasingly practicing "non-voluntary" euthanasia thus ending seriously
ill patients lives without their approval. This fear is based on good reason,
according to the most recent survey of Dutch physicians conducted by their government, 23
percent of the doctors said they had ended a patients life without his or her
explicit request.
More than 60% of orthodox medical treatment not scientific.
In a June 6, 1998 article printed in the British Medical Journal Dr.
Iain Chalmers admitted this interesting item as part of an article where he was
criticizing what he considered a "double standard" in reviewing procedures of
orthodox medicine to what the article called "alternative medicine". Dr.
Chalmers was writing about a subject that we chiropractors have known about for some time.
Occasionally an article appears that tries to criticize chiropractic by falsely saying it
is not scientific. In reality chiropractic has as much, or in some instances more science
behind the things we say than does the medical approach to health care treatment by drugs
or surgery.
Tragic Story of Child Killed at Birth Raises Questions
(Reader beware, the following story is both tragic and disturbing.) In
the Thursday October 10, 1998 issue of the Jerusalem Post appeared a story with the
following headline: "Police probe babys decapitation at birth."
This chilling story is about a child who was decapitated during birth while the doctors
were using the help of a suction devise now more widely used in the birth process. The
death occurred when the childs wide shoulders became stuck and the delivery team
pulled hard on the infants head and caused the head to separate from the body. The
Hospital director, Dr. Oscar Embon said the staff was "very experienced". He
went on to comment, "The delivery was going as it should and the team saw no reason
to perform a Caesarean section before the tragedy occurred."
This chilling story is an extreme example of a situation chiropractors
have been warning about for a long time called Traumatic Birth Syndrome, (TBS). Many
chiropractors advise parents that children should be check at birth for vertebral
subluxations caused from a "normal birth" process. Chiropractors report that
they regularly care for children with birth subluxations that would have had a large
impact on the childs health and quality of life. Although the tragedy as reported
above is rare, according to many chiropractors, trauma from birth causing neurological
problems from subluxations is not so rare at all. Many authorities now recommend children
receive a chiropractic spinal check up as soon as possible after birth to lessen the
effects from Traumatic Birth Syndrome and Subluxation.
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