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Dr. Hoffman:
Hi. I'm Dr. Stu Hoffman, President of ChiroSecure, and back with you again. We have another show coming up today on Katie May, at least Katie May's death. This is the whole stroke association with chiropractors issue being highlighted and hyped by the media. The latest incarnation of that is the Dr. Oz Show. Dr. Oz has been a proponent of chiropractic for many, many years. He's been totally fair to the chiropractors and our profession over these years. I want people to understand right off the bat that we look for a fair analysis of what's taking place. At the same time I can say that as an individual I didn't appreciate the headline, "Can Chiropractors Kill You?" We don't see on TV, "Can a Hairdresser Kill You," or, "Your Medical Doctor, Are They Killing You," necessarily or anybody else. I think it just added a little too much hype to this situation, because it can have a detrimental effect on the public and how they view chiropractors as a whole. We know that as chiropractors, we take care of so many people around the world and get such incredible, miraculous results for people that had nowhere else to turn. I want everyone to understand that we're coming from the perspective that chiropractors are unique in their abilities to help patients, and at the same time I get the calls all day long right now talking about what do I say to patients about this stroke issue. Again, we have Dr. Clum with us. He's been with us all the way through talking about the association of strokes with chiropractors and the chiropractic profession. He's going to give us an overview of what actually happened on the Dr. Oz Show. Then we'll talk about a little bit what you can actually discuss and address in an appropriate manner with your patients and with the public. I want to thank Dr. Clum again for coming back. He's always there for us, always there for the entire profession. Take it away, Dr. Clum. What can you tell us? Good morning, Dr. Hoffman. It's a pleasure to be with you even if the circumstances are rather unfortunate in terms of the issue that we're here to address. There's a little bit of a twist on your intro relative to the, in the Oz Show and the tagline that they used as a teaser in advance of the show. Everybody's probably familiar with the term, "Sweeps week," which is the week that the television industry at different times of the year assesses their ratings and viewership and so on, and this is sweeps week. One of the reasons that the Dr. Oz Show used a very provocative teaser in this was to hype their ratings in this discussion. In a sense, we can take this as a bit of a backhand compliment that they would run this show during sweeps week because there would be a lot of people that would
Dr. Clum:
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