A few years back, Derek MacBay worked in our San Diego \t\tSeaside Chiropractic office. He was a fun and enthusiastic \t\taddition to our office and everybody loved him. Yesterday I \t\treceived an announcement and it hit me emotionally, much harder \t\tthan I expected it would. It was the announcement that Derek had \t\tgraduated from Chiropractic College.<\/p>\n
Although chiropractic is one of the most amazing and beautiful \t\tinventions ever created on this planet, being a chiropractor is not \t\tnecessarily the easiest job. I have such tremendous respect and \t\tadmiration for Derek, for having made it through what he just went \t\tthrough. As a chiropractic student you are expected to learn all of \t\tthe same information that is learned by medical students, other than \t \tstudying about surgery and drugs. A chiropractic student these days is \t \texpected to learn how to diagnose everything from Osgood-Schlatter \t\tDisease to lung cancer and to be able to know if that pain running \t\tdown the patients arm is coming from a pinched nerve in their neck or \t \tif the patient is suffering from a heart attack. It is a tremendous \t \tamount of information that has to be learned in an extremely short \t \tperiod of time. By a short period of time, I mean three and a half \t \tor four years.<\/p>\n
A chiropractic student generally graduates Chiropractic College with \t\tover 100,000 dollars in debt. A chiropractic student is expected to \t\thave the same diagnostic skill level as a medical doctor graduating \t\tfrom medical school, but a chiropractic student has to do it without \t\tall of the help that medical students receive. Medical students have \t\tmany more programs and facilities available to them than chiropractic \t\tstudents. A massive amount of money flows from pharmaceutical companies \t\tinto medical schools, which allow the medical schools to have much \t\tnicer facilities. There are also many more programs available to help \t\tthe medical student finance his or her education, than for the \t\tchiropractic student.<\/p>\n
Most if not all the medical schools in California are also financed \t\tthrough your tax dollars. Places like University of California, San \t\tDiego Medical School or UCLA Medical School, are public institutions \t\tfunded, in addition to pharmaceutical companies, by the state of \t\tCalifornia and your tax dollars. Chiropractic Colleges on the other \t\thand receive none of this. As a medical doctor you also have programs \t\tavailable to you where you can do things like practice in a rural area \t\tthat doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have as many medical doctors in it for a certain amount \t\tof years and have some or all of your student loans forgiven.<\/p>\n
The average salary of medical doctors is still astronomically higher \t\tthan the average starting salary of chiropractors. So for somebody like \t\tDerek to go through what he has gone through, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done it purely from \t\tthe view point of helping others and making the world a better place. I \t\tknow Derek, and I know how energetic and passionate he is about life. I \t\tknow that as a result of his graduating he is going to touch, shape \t\tand save thousands and thousands of lives.<\/p>\n
For Derek, on behalf of Myself, Reagan, my Wife, Seaside \t\tChiropractic, the entire chiropractic profession and as a member of \t\tthe human race, I congratulate you on what you have accomplished. I am \t\tthrilled to watch the story of your life, and the miracles you will \t\tcreate unfold before us. So Good-Bye! Derek MacBay, the previous \t\temployee and assistant of Seaside Chiropractic and Hello! Dr. Derek \t\tMacBay Chiropractor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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