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February 14, 2003

WELL said Jack

DrBob

W. Pfeiffer,D.C.;D,A.B.C.O.

P. O. Box 606

Pendleton, Or. 97801

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licensing, testing, etc " if ya got the time " .......

Listmates:

I have always been

intrigued by the wide extremes and often markedly differing points of view

my fellow DCs have expressed over the years....and I was very impressed by

the fierce dedication my own chiropractic mentor, along with other pioneers

chiros, demonstrated in the face of opposition from without and dissention

from within.......it has always amazed me something as good as

chiropractic generates so much antagonism and wastes so much

energy...........

In the early 1980s WSCC

had initiated the " Oral History " project to interview and record what

some of these pioneers had to say about life and times as a

chiropractor when it was not uncommon for DCs to be arrested for

practicing medicine without a license.

I got to know one old

graduate of LACC 1928 and got an earful not just of the clinical experiences

but the political and economic obstacles of the 1930s, 40, 50s.......He had

built an electronic sine wave generator from plans he got out of a 1927 issue

of Popular Mechanics! We gave it to WSCC library...... but as absurd

as it looked now, as advanced for its time, as home-built as it was, it

served the purpose very well in his clinic for over 30 years!! He did

colonics in 1926 in school, opened a large 'sanitarium in southern Cal,

used herbs and a wide range of therapeutics we would call 'broad scope'

and he maintained a strong base in DD

Palmer's

philosophy. Not BJs. He attended some lectures given by BJ in the

early days. He became a chiropractor because as a child he had developed

" polio " and was given up by the medical world. His parents took

him to some 'choir-practor guy' who gave him a drop-pelvic thrust 'that about

killed me' and then 'the same thing to my neck', but after about 3 months of

regular such treatment, he was recovered enough to walk and run normally....

His pithy comments on

current standards, etc motivated me, and instead of

alternately ignoring the needs of our

profession, then complaining about what was wrong........I decided to

DO SOMETHING.....

......I took a small step

and became one of those 'item writers' as I believed the testing

process was actually dedicated to demonstrating what an ignorant fool

I was instead of rewarding me for the tons of irrelevant stuff 'they made

me memorize'.......instead, I learned how hard it is to write a 'good'

question......

And somehow I was

shanghaied into trying to kick that rickety document called

" OCPUG " into a more reasonable form representing what my vision of

Chiropractic was.....and I learned there were other visions that perhaps had as

strong a basis as my own notions.....supported by those more scholarly, more

eloquent, more skilled at verbal persuasion......and who could and often DID show

me where I was just plain WRONG!!!.......

.....Then I was asked to

help on the Exam committee to try to develop a more rational test question

pool that actually related to what the practicing Oregon DCs 'need to

know'..........and I learned there are a whole lot of earnest and dedicated DCs

out there doing things I never even considered doing, that were getting people

well.....beyond me and my vision, but not beyond Chiropractic........

....and the Peer

Review process obviously needed someone to keep it from flagrantly

abusing the hapless field DC.......and I learned there are some out there who

are truly greedy, ignorant, black-hearted or incompetent....but most

of us are none of those horrible things.....

.........and the National

Board exams needed proctors to help insure only 'qualified candidates'

were certified....and I learned to appreciate that regardless of what their

philosophy may be, it is important that they can demonstrate they see there is

a tumor or a fracture in this xray, or they can

actually demonstrate a given basic chiropractic adjustment........

......and I helped with the

mentor program developed by the much maligned OBCE to assist the errant DC

revitalize their professional performance.......

......It continually amazes

me what a large buffet Chiropractic represents. There is something

for each palate and each appetite......

......and each step of the

way, I have been amazed at what I found, was not at all what I thought

was going to be the case.......Dr. Titrud long ago would make a

point, look around the class and suddenly state " Even the SLOW students

can learn this " .....and he would look right at ME.....I always thought he

was making a grand joke........but maybe he was right.....

from near the edge,

J. Pedersen,

DC

OregonDCs

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July 5, 2003

Hi, Jacque I am glad you wrote in , you will gain useful information her and

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daughter had motley skin awhile back , the doctor was quite concerned of

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sinus

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getting enough oxygen in her body. Sometimes due to asthma or illness . Sounds

like

your grandson needs a good checkup by some great dr's. Testing will reveal any

trouble . I wish you luck on adopting him, you can lots of information at

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alot of times I think is sensory due to lack of language . He may be trying to

talk and voice is likes or dislikes Autism is another thing our children tend

to have with ds and kids with autism also growl. My daughter still growls and

she is 10 , she loves to growl instead of speak at times showing her dislikes

to whatever we have requested-lol--. Goodluck and hang in there. Ask for

anything you need here you will receive lots of great advice and information, if

we

dont know , we will find it for you. Thanks Nettie619

July 5, 2003