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Does anybody else on this forum get a bit cynical about all the American chiropractors who call themselves doctors,wear white coats & often have stethoscopes round their necks on their Youtube videos & the photos on their websites?

Even though the NHS & qualified GPs & endocrinologists are letting us down so badly,I still worry that desperate people are manipulated into parting with large amounts of cash for the summits,courses & supplements they sell,believing they have medical qualifications that they don't.I feel its a bit manipulative verging on dishonest.

This is not to say that many of the presentations have very good free information about auto-immune illness on them.

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Does anybody else on this forum get a bit cynical about all the American chiropractors who call themselves doctors, wear white coats & often have stethoscopes round their necks on their Youtube videos & the photos on their websites?

Me. :) Not to say that some without any medical qualifications ( our admins and many long standing and regular posters here at HU TUK ) give sound advice to many...but have no cure all supplement, one-time offer or life-saving ebook to flog :D

Take what you need and leave the rest

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK in reply to Rapunzel

Any person who is set up as any form of medic seems to have difficulty in saying "I don't know." Lots here don't like saying it - simply because it doesn't provide the much-needed help - but don't have the egos and arrogance issues, and financial imperatives, that stop them doing so.

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Rapunzel

youtube.com/watch?v=tOb2POQ...

...just reminded me that even the 'proper' doctors can also have egos and arrogance issues

Forge on, Naomi8 they shall not have us

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK in reply to Rapunzel

Replace "even" by "most especially"...

Superhero doctors:

Rogue doctors ‘use superhero status to abuse patients’

theguardian.com/society/201...

I'd include dismissal of patient concerns, being told it is in your head, and many other stories related here, under "abuse".

I think chiropractors in the US are more than just the back doctors they have in the UK - they seem to be more like functional medicine practitioners. Yes, there are an awful lot of them jumping on the "Ler's do an Internet seminar" bandwagon, but I bet a lot of our doctors would do that if they thought they could get away with it (or that anyone would listen to them).

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