On 11-12-15 11:46 PM, Mary Yugo wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com
<mailto:sa...@pobox.com>> wrote:
Were those experiments done *before* or *after* onset of rigor mortis?
Fresh cadavers-- and it was quite a while ago for the study I
remember. As to MRI and CT studies of the same phenomenon, I'm pretty
sure they've been done but I have not looked for them. Chiropractors
also abuse and misuse and misinterpret and take inferior X-rays. I am
not convinced chiropractic as practiced now should be legal. I once
encountered a woman who had delayed breast cancer treatment because
she had bone pain from metastasis and a chiropractor had treated it as
a back sprain. A medical doctor would have been more likely to have
done the right tests and made the right diagnosis because most will do
a complete exam at least once with a new patient or a serious new
complaint.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail."
As it happens, once breast cancer has metastasized into the bones it's
considered stage 4, incurable by conventional means, so she may not have
missed much by failing to have it properly diagnosed...
OTOH such tales of totally retarded diagnoses by chiropractors are not
so uncommon as all that. Someone my dad knew was being treated by
chiropractor for a pinched nerve. He finally went to a regular doctor
(due to the urging of his wife) and found out it was heart disease.
(Lucky for him, he found out *before* the autopsy.)
