The truth of the matter is, like most things, the truth is in the middle, and both ends are wrong. That's the perspective I think you and I would like to see our colleagues take, is that every chiropractor, every single chiropractor should be intimately familiar with the literature that we've talked about today and that, when I talk about Rothwell or Cassidy or Kosloff or Church, they should know exactly what I'm talking about in detail. That may sound unreasonable to some people. They may say, "Well, that's just not part of my world." Make it part of your world because the challenges that come to us are best responded to with the information that those articles carry and convey. You need to know what they say. You need to understand the methodology involved. You need to understand the implication relative to the epidemiology involved and the power of those studies in relationship to a case study or a case series or something of that nature. The more we can get our colleagues to understand that, the old story that we were taught since we were kids, the best defense is a good offense, if we have the data, if we know what we have, we can use those tools in our play. If we don't, then we're left with nothing but defense. Lord knows, we don't want that at all. I want to reiterate that this is about elevating our doctors' level of awareness, not elevating their fear. It's actually what I got from you, just a little different format. I think, on top of that, I get the same when I'm talking to doctors all the time. In fact, there was a doctor in the last week or so that contacted me because so many of our colleagues assume this has nothing to do with them or their practice, but the more and more publicity that is out there about this, it is affecting every single practice whether we are keeping our head in the sand, as you said, or not. Some of the doctors don't realize until someone does ask them a question, and this doctor contacted me, do I have any information about this, this, and this? I sent the information that we had, but they wanted more specific. This particular situation was more [inaudible 00:26:25] that we talked about in great lengths. It was all because a patient's father, I believe it was, wanted more information, so this doctor, it's my opinion, felt that they needed more to prove to that one individual that we're okay. We cite different things, even in our informed consent, things to demonstrate how ridiculously safe a chiropractic adjustment actually is, compared to any other healthcare service that's out there. Part of my devotion and passion for bringing this information to the profession is because I don't want this information to, one day, overcome our colleagues and their practices because it can if we don't do something about it and stay vigilant with each one of these things that come out.
Dr. Hoffman:
Thank God someone like you does respond to Baylor and to Vanderbilt on the professions we have, but at least you did it based on the literature and clear,
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