Licensure was only a means to this end - an end that, to this day, Medicine is bent on denying chiropractors by controlling how freely and deeply they are allowed to dip into the Golden Goose’s nesteggs.
The ultimate goal, the Elixir of Immortality, was access to health insurance, the Golden Goose, well guarded by the insurance industry: equality under the law with Medicine in the reimbursement for Chiropractic services. The victory was a partial one, however, as licensure was not the ultimate goal of the profession’s quest. It also became the last state to grant patients the freedom and right to go to the doctor of their choice.
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I joined in the fight for licensure here in Louisiana, my home state - as well as the battle for patients’ “Freedom of Choice” in health care, a separate journey and battle led by a group of passionate Chiropractic patients with whom we shared a common cause and a common nemesis.Īfter several years of legislative efforts - and court battles to stop the arrest and jailing of chiropractors - we finally defeated our nemesis in 1974 when Louisiana became the last state in the Union to license Chiropractors. A Battle for Licensure and Freedom of Choice Little did I know then that my journey through the field of health care was to be a journey of the profession I had joined that was already engaged in a political battle with its nemesis: the medical profession, the Guardian of the Threshold leading to licensure as a separate, distinct and independent profession with a vitalistic philosophy and a drugless healing science and art. The Healing Field was ripe for a new paradigm of health care and I was eager to deliver it. I graduated from Chiropractic college in 1963 and immediately moved south with my family and opened my first practice in Crowley, Louisiana in the Winter of 1963-64. My professional journey in life began when I turned twenty-one and left the seminary to pursue a career in Chiropractic. part 2: The Journey My Journey in Chiropractic and the Healing Field
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