Originally posted by dcw135
This month (already) I've seen some pretty horrid spine cases and to switch this away from chiropractic bashing, which is quite right, but boring and makes me, for one, realize that these people are doing pretty well financially in (mostly) a fee for service setting.
Anyway, corny, I saw a teenager with a spinal stroke. It spared his sexual function, so why is his "life force" "limp"? Or is this just a term stupid people use in order to sound like they're deep and spititual. If this is, as I suspect, the case, I have some terms for you: your entire thought process is incorrect, and I hope you don't make anyone dissect this week with your neck manipulation (seen it twice).
I know its thread jumping, but if that personality disordered idiot, oldandtired reads this, let me say that the initial stat MRI was negative in the case above. I'm totally in agreement with him that, clinically, there isn't all that much for doctors intellectually. Many times the diagnosis hangs on radiology and sometimes it doesn't. Even in IM, PNA is a clinical diagnosis. Neurology can prove to be even more of an exception. Someone has to take the radiographic information (not to mention gotten the proper studies in the first place) and make sense of it in terms of the presenting problems and exam. Glad this kid wasn't in the hands of the radiologists, "well, we can't see anything - send him home." Oldandtired, go join Corny in the same category I reserve for GWB.