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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
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1) I'll amend the statement to 99% cannot diagnose anything other than hearing loss. One of the first steps in assessing vertigo is an MRI. An audiologist is not even permitted to order an MRI (unless the rules have changed in the last 8 years), so how can they even begin to diagnose anything?
2) Withdrawn. It was a hyperbole intended to draw attention to the mistake of starting the assessment of a problem with a chiropractor rather than a qualified doctor. Apologies, especially to 2 good friends of mine that are chiropractors
3) I stand by that assertion. How many disasters, how many dead patients does it take to qualify as not being "categorically wrong"???? I don't measure unnecessary deaths in "percentage of time"
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1. You are an esteemed doctor. You then make the statement that 99% of audiologists cannot diagnose anything other than hearing loss. You or your proctologist got that statistic from the same place. But people listen to you. And that is why I keep pushing back. Can you please provide any source for that data. If you say your extensive experience, that cannot cover even 1 tenth of 1% of the audiologists/audiology departments.
3. Your assertion was that you"spent your career cleaning up after chiropractors. Either that statement is completely false, or your assertion that much of what we find on google or the procedures we go through at the doctors office were developed by you is completely false. No one disagrees that their are unnecessary deaths( I don't think) and that one is too many. But that was not the assertion. You spent your career cleaning up after chiropractors. I would be a HUGE sum of money that you cleaned up after more medical malpractice in your 30 years than you did cleaning up after chiropractors(maybe none that were as serious as the one case with your nurse). I completely get hyperbole. But, you put it out there in the exact same way you put out there all the steps you should go through for the diagnosis of the cause of vertigo or your 99% statistic above. Was that intended as fact or hyperbole? If it was hyperbole, are you actually using hyperbole to prove a point?
I hope 100% of the people can wade through what you write and get to what you really mean, because I am sure your heart is in the right place. If I went to a doctor and got an xray/MRI and diagnosis, every time I threw my back out, I would be a very poor man, and I would be in pain/incapacitated for much longer than I need to be.
If someone posts that they are looking for a good chiropractor because they are new to the villages, a public service post to make sure a chiropractor is what you need and strongly consider getting a medical opinion first because this is what happened to a nurse patient of mine would be great. You get to help prevent the same thing from re-occurring but you haven't made statements which could preclude people from getting the help that they need. And if you say that no one needs a chiropractor, I will add that to my list of categorically wrong statements.