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|  | My Wrong Assumptions As A Student at Life Univ
« Thread Started on May 31, 2006, 6:51am » | |
As a student I made many erroneous assumptions about school and future practice that kept me from realizing the true nature of chiropractic.
Regarding chiropractic zealots, I thought the Green Book guys (straight supporters of Palmer) were a bunch of minority fanatics.
Regarding curriculum I thought that Life had to teach the same material as other schools since they were CCE accredited.
And regarding the pro-straight emphasis I thought that the craziness would stop once we entered clinic.
Regarding future prospects I thought there was a real scientific basis in rehabilition that I could work in.
All of these assumptions were wrong.
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| | Re: My Wrong Assumptions As A Student at Life Univ
« Reply #1 on Jun 1, 2006, 12:42am » | |
This is a good point Allen....Many say that quackery exists in all professions and that is true....But with Chiropractic, it is part of the fabric or infrastructure of the profession....It's in the character and nature of chiropractic...Its what it is, rather than just a few wandering off the reservation....The quackery is taught, rewarded, esteemed, necessary to get ahead (in almost all cases).
The other leading groups are just as chiropractic as Life but they do a better job at whitewashing it....They show you how to find a AAA on a plain film and do a few (invalid) ortho tests and take a history....But at the end of the day, they still believe in the POWER and GLORY of the adjustment. They still crack backs for diabetics...they just diagnose the diabetes first and then they crack the back...that's the difference....They're different. Different monsters.
There are not even any rehab questions on our board exams....Back experts my keester!
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| | Re: My Wrong Assumptions As A Student at Life Univ
« Reply #2 on Jun 1, 2006, 5:50am » | |
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There are not even any rehab questions on our board exams....Back experts my keester!
If you read the CCE accreditation guidelines they refuse to regulate treatment. So I assume that NBCE follows suit-meaning anything goes.
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| | Re: My Wrong Assumptions As A Student at Life Univ
« Reply #3 on Jun 1, 2006, 11:02am » | |
life university sucked, I sensed it from day one orientation assembly with Sid and I was so glad my parents didn't attend because all he did was BASH medical doctors!!! (my dad's an MD) I kept looking around and other students were just reassuring me that he was the only quack and I should just ignore Sid because he was old and quite an extremist.
As the quarters went by, nothing changed....crazy chiro fanatics and 'successful' chiros would parade up in front of the school of how great chiropractic is and how we were all the chosen ones...and we needed to reform healthcare because MDs didn't have a clue.
This one's a classic:
Dr. Rabin's father came in for assembly one time and raved about chiropractic and then exclaimed that he was ready to be injected with the HIV virus because he KNEW that as long as he got adjusted that the virus would NEVER survive in his body!
HAHAHAHA wow, and why I still continued to waste my time and money there, I have no idea-now 5 years later (due to accreditation issues, it took me 5) I have a worthless degree and a crap load of loans to my name!
THANKS LIFE UNIVERSITY....
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| | Re: My Wrong Assumptions As A Student at Life Univ
« Reply #4 on Jun 3, 2006, 12:59am » | |
Quote:| life university sucked, I sensed it from day one orientation assembly with Sid and I was so glad my parents didn't attend because all he did was BASH medical doctors!!! (my dad's an MD) I kept looking around and other students were just reassuring me that he was the only quack and I should just ignore Sid because he was old and quite an extremist. |
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I remember hearing this same kind of thing in lower quarters: Sid is just a nut, people said, he doesn't represent "modern chiropractic".
Problem was that Sid and Sid's people designed the curriculum at the school. That meant pretend diagnosis, focus on subluxation analysis. No meaningful clinic experience, just recruiting asymptomatic patients. No telling us when manipulation was actually appropriate, just everybody needs chiropractic all the time. (As Sid used to say, "See the fields white with the harvest!")
Sid was no extremist at Life University, his vision continues (even today) to set the tone for how the college operates -- and keep it in the Dark Ages of health care quackery.
I was recently surprised to learn (right here on ChiroTalk) that back in the early '80's students were already paying their patients to come into Life's clinics! Ha, sounds like nothing ever changes!!
The biggest difference in the old days was that potential students didn't have the internet, a factor that nowadays exposes such problems with the click of a few buttons. Seriously, would you want to be a chiropractic college recruiter in 2006?
Student: "This college sounds interesting. I'm just going home to think about it and do some research on the internet, OK?"
Recruiter: "No, wait, maybe you should just sign the dotted line. We'll give you a free 'Chiropractic Works' t-shirt if you join today."
When you've got everybody including Mayor McCheese and his brother putting up webpages discouraging you to go to chiro college -- on their own time and dollar, you seriously gotta wonder how great the career is going to be.
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