There’s no evidence chiro works at all (except lower back pain, and evidence isn’t solid). Any MD practicing chiro (especially for non-lower-backpain-treatments) should have their license medical license taken. Presenting as an MD is giving their chiro treatments undue validity. It’s totally unethical.
I like to see where my feet are going when I run. In fact, I sprained my ankle soon after receiving my second dose. Not wearing a mask might have saved me from a week or two of pain.
Mmm, no they just tell you that you better go take some expensive tests that probably won’t address your concerns, but “just to be sure”.
Or write you a script for the hottest newest - non generic - drug, when the one that has been on the market for 30 years would work as well (possibly better) and cost you much less. I am sure the mountain of promo materials with said drug name on it is just a coincidence.
IDK if Doctors have changed or I’ve just found good ones, but I’ve found this not to be the case anymore. Now my doctor does probably order more tests than necessary, but I give him a pass on that because he was also my dad’s doctor years ago and if he wasn’t so damn thorough, they would not have discovered my dad’s cancer til much later and we wouldn’t have had time to have the family come visit him one last time, and for him to get everything in order he wanted to.
But I take a lot of meds, and its been a long time since I’ve been prescribed any new hotness by any of my doctors. They don’t have stacks of pharma merch around much anymore. About 15 years ago, I remember calling and asking doctors to prescribe something cheaper.
It is no where near universal. And yes, they made some reforms on how drug reps can peddle their wares.
But while I really like my new doc, the one previous to me cost me an arm and a leg, and I stuck with him as I feared trying to switch would get me labeled as a drug shopper to fill scripts.
Kind of similar to my experience. I went to one because I needed my achilles tendons stretched out, and I reckoned it was maybe 20 bucks cheaper with my insurance to go to a Chiro than a Massage therapist.
I told them, I only needed the tendon work. But they insisted they could not do that without an assessment. The assessment (surprise!) found lots of bad things which need fixing! They wanted to me to try (for free) an alignment. Again, super pushy, didn’t want to let me go without it.