Saturday, May 09, 2009
Evidence or Eminence Based Medicine?
“Power to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
- The Entire Chiropractic Profession has only 70 full time researchers
· The drug company Pfizer has 12,000 full time researchers
- Less than 5% of full time DC Faculty at chiropractic institutions are involved in chiropractic research
- The total budget (for Everything) for all our chiropractic institutions is a mere $224 million
- Of that $224 million of the total budget, our chiropractic institutions spend only $4 million on research programs
- In the entire 100+ year history of the chiropractic profession, chiropractic has received less than $10 million from the federal government to do research
- The top 25 medical schools received $6 Billion from just the NIH in 2000 alone
What are the results?
When one begins comparisons with medical / allopathic procedures, the statistics really begin to spin one’s head. Using a baseline figure of one per one million as an estimate of stroke incidence attributed to cervical manipulations (not just chiropractic, but all such procedures), one finds a:
· Two Times greater risk of dying from transfusing one unit of blood
· 100 Times greater risk of dying from general anesthesia
· 160-400 Times greater risk of dying from the use of NSAIDS
· 700 times greater risk of dying from lumbar spinal surgery
· 1000-10,000 times greater risk from traditional gall bladder surgery
· 10,000 times greater risk of serious harm from medical mistakes in hospitals
The 225,000 deaths per year attributed to medical iatrogenesis (allopathy) have propelled it to the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer.
Absolute, testosterone charged, black and white statements by heroic allopathic physicians will have to give way to the gray world of reality and hard numbers brought to us by evidence and real science – rather than Eminence based medicine and allopathic-religious superstitions.
