As you had said, one of the things that we do is that we want to get excited and agitated when we're confronted with something in our circle. I would ask that, as people do get angry and respond to those kinds of things, that they think about the logic and the rationale that they respond to concerns that they have in other disciplines and are you applying the same standard to yourself that you're expecting of other people. It leads to that circumstance you were talking about where you wind up with a half-page ad in the morning newspaper as you open it up that has a kernel of truth to it but, by the time you read and get through the entire ad, it's not a kernel, it's a whole ear of corn. Extrapolating out and making inappropriate assertions and conclusions or allowing those to be made in the mind of the reader, it's troublesome. In time, it's eventually going to come back and bite people in the butt, and then they wind up at your doorstep wanting help or they wind up with me saying, "Will you come testify for me before the board," or whatever the case might be. We need to be careful. The formula for the day is, be diligent, pay attention to what comes across the table, and make sure that the information is countered and addressed. Number two, pass it along to other people. Don't assume that because you saw it, everybody else saw it. Send it to you, send it to me. Make sure it gets into the discussion realm that we can begin to address it more formally. Is there an organizational response that you can make? Is there an institutional response that one of our educational institutions can make, and so on? Those are the things that we have to do. To the degree that we can do them effectively, we can impact this whole circumstance more efficiently. Thanks, Dr. Clum. As always, I appreciate your insights. We share a lot of the same things as we cross paths around the country and on the telephone with doctors on a daily basis. For those of you that are watching that don't already utilize and have our informed consent packet, certainly go onto our Facebook and/or our website and sign up for our concierge service, request it. Please like us on Facebook and download our ChiroSecure app on your smartphone, but we will keep you up to date on any and everything that comes out. This last weekend, I was thanked by so many people for the information that we've made available to them that they wouldn't have had had we not brought it to the forefront, so we have people like Dr. Clum that is intimately involved in protecting doctors from reading, understanding, and responding to issues like the Baylor article that came out. We're thankful for him, and we appreciate all of you for participating and staying in tune with what we have to offer. As Dr. Clum said, please read the articles, understand it, and then you could pass along information to your patients and your community that's based on actual research rather than emotion. That's what we want to convey to you, so thank you and have a great day.
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