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Tedd Koren’s free
September 2007 newsletter Love work, hate
tyranny. – Shemayah Yom Kippur is considered the holiest day of the Jewish faith. It is a day of fasting and prayer. Every year of my life I’ve been in synagogue on Yom Kippur - except the one day we were in court fighting Stephen Barrett. Everyone expected the trial to last a day, maybe two at the most. When it was going into its fourth day we asked the judge to permit us to spend Yom Kippur as we always did and resume the trial the following day. He refused. Beth was upset, “I have another Judge to answer to,” she said. We always saw this battle (and our other battles) as for a larger cause – fighting for freedom, for freedom of choice. This fight was no different and that comforted me as Beth, Seth and I (Shayna was with friends) headed up to Allentown on Yom Kippur morning. I think fasting made the tension worse. We waited to enter the courtroom. The judge was still working. By 10:30 we were finally called in. We understood how seriously this was being taken. The judge told us that he’d been up until 2:00 AM working on his decision. He proceeded to state his thinking on the case but the silence in the courtroom was interrupted by Barrett’s talking to his attorney. The judge had to remind him several times that it was not his turn to speak. Barrett’s attorney jumped up and read the judge the riot act, questioning this statement and that statement and reminding the judge of this and that. The judge listened and said he would consider his arguments and asked the courtroom to be cleared. We waited in the hall. Barrett’s attorney approached my attorney, “We’d like a word with you.” My attorney came back a few minutes later. “He said that if you give him $100,000 he’ll drop his suit against you.” I said “Tell him that he can go adjust himself.” (I didn’t exactly use that word but you get the idea). The judged called us back into the courtroom. He decided Barrett had no case against me and dismissed the jury. It’s called a “directed verdict.” If you’ve ever been a defendant in a jury trial you know how intense it is. After four days I was physically and emotionally exhausted. My life (and that of my family) was disrupted for months beforehand, the expenses were high and very few people were sufficiently aware of the larger picture. That afternoon, as we picked up Shayna to go to the remaining services, I turned to Beth and said, “I’ve had it. Let someone else fight. I’m exhausted.” We got to synagogue to conclude Yom Kippur. It was very solemn. Everyone was reading a prayer about children, about children being made perfect and living a full life. Suddenly we hear a strange grunting a few rows back. Then we hear it again, louder. Then much louder. Beth and I look at each other. “What could be happening?” Then it’s a scream. I turn around. He’s about my son’s age, dressed in a nice suit for the holidays. He's also got a football helmet on his head. Parents are constraining him. He's autistic. Later that night Beth said, “We can’t stop fighting.” Of course she is right. Mercy 2: The profession does not see the danger. by Steven Eisen, DC  This is a graph of the number of website hits over the past
year to www.CCGPP.org the
Council on Guidelines and Practice Parameters. These are the
same people who brought you the Mercy Guidelines 15 years
ago. You know…those guidelines that were declared outdated
by the National Guidelines Clearinghouse about 5 years ago,
but are still being used by managed care organizations and
insurance companies to slash care to your patients.Well now they have reorganized and are about to publish guidelines for the insurance industry to slash your care again. They are reviewing comments from all stakeholders. If you are a chiropractor, you are a stakeholder. Look closely at this graph. You would have had to log on to their website to offer comments. Over the past year the most number of people who have logged on has been slightly over 700. A lot of those people, probably most of them, are CCGPP members and from the insurance industry. Even if they all were objective, independent stakeholders, the highest percentage of the profession that could have been involved if you figure it out is 1.1666%. The CCGPP plans to publish guidelines for chiropractic, virtually ignoring the small percentage of distinguished doctors who cared enough to offer feedback, under the mask of scientific evidence, even though much of the evidence has been ignored. And in the many areas where there was no actual scientific evidence, the CCGPP itself has stated that their opinion (consensus) will prevail. The bottom line is that it’s all about the money. The money the sick health care system will save by using these sick guidelines to refuse payment for chiropractic care. The CCGPP is undoubtedly counting on apathy to prevail. Like the mythical boiled frog, by the time the water boils, it will be too late. What does this draft say? Case studies are dismissed. See page 7: "these reports can only provide evidence that patients with the conditions described have sought care from chiropractors; case reports cannot provide convincing evidence to support best practices." We are left with a very short list of "conditions." No “spinal manipulation” for health promotion and/or disease prevention." It takes little imagination to see what state boards and other regulators will do with this. What can you do to stop this? Well, you can sit back and watch your bank account shrink or you can: Contact CCGPP (they say they want to hear from you) stating that you feel that it is inappropriate to exclude case studies as a basis for recommending best practices. Support alternative guidelines such as that from the CCP (Council on Chiropractic Practice) Guidelines, which focus on subluxation/wellness care, rather than the treatment of a short list of conditions and the ICA’s guidelines. Get the CCP guidelines at http://www.ccp-guidelines.org Tell others about this. Forward this article to them. Why did DC lie about Tedd Koren, DC? Dynamic Chiropractic printed a World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) report accusing me of teaching chiropractic to lay people in Berlin. Wrong on both counts! I was teaching professionals an analysis protocol that can be applied to nearly any healthcare system. Months earlier I had written to DC and the WFC telling them: KST can be applied to chiropractic, dentistry, optometry, medicine, homeopathy, nutrition and other healthcare fields. All types of practitioners may apply its safe, gentle and accurate procedures to their respective disciplines and in accordance with the laws of their lands. When KST is applied to chiropractic the results are incredible (that’s how I healed myself after years of suffering). I told this to the WFC yet they still told Dynamic Chiropractic I was teaching chiropractic to lay people. I also wrote to DC. They didn’t check to see who was telling the truth. They just published the WFC version. I got hate mail based on the false DC article. This is investigative journalism? This is responsible journalism? There are only two possibilities: (1) they got my letter in response to WFC – and didn’t read it!! or (2) they can’t read. But you can read it. Read what the “ready, shoot, aim” publisher of DC did not, or could not, read at www.teddkorenseminars.com go to Articles and click on Response to Petersen, Clum, Smith. The candidate for President who gets my vote  This is great. He publicly states he is in favor of
healthcare freedom and
against forced vaccinations. Check him out at:
www.ronpaul2008.com
Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record: He has never voted to raise taxes. He has never voted for an unbalanced budget. He has never voted to raise congressional pay. He has never taken a government-paid junket. He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch. He voted against the Patriot Act. He voted against regulating the internet. He voted against the Iraq war. He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program. He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. Treasury every year. PS. Hillary Clinton has accepted more money from pharmaceutical companies (and insurance companies) than any other candidate. Drug Muggers Paula Sperry, DC sent us this important information that any patient you know who is on drugs needs to see: http://dearpharmacist.com/drugmuggers/ Monsanto Goes GMO-Free in its Cafeteria Ode Magazine, June 2007 http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_6401.cfm The world’s biggest promoter of genetically modified foods is Monsanto. Staff at the British headquarters of biotech giant Monsanto will be eating only non-genetically modified products on their lunch breaks. Foods containing genetically modified soy and corn are no longer available in the company cafeteria. Granada Food Services, which manages the canteen, is said to be concerned about health risks. Monsanto's press department contends the action was not the result of a boycott initiated by worried employees of the U.S. multinational.  Baby
Einstein" and "Brainy Baby" series: More harm than good?A University of Washington research team found that for every hour per day watching baby DVDs and videos, infants learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary words than babies who never watch the videos. These products had the strongest detrimental effect on babies 8 to 16 months old, the age at which language skills are starting to form. Full story..
The Future of Chiropractic - spoof
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbr3Mr6FS2I
Feel free to write to me to let me know what you think. I’m
(almost) always available. I hope to see you at a future
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all doped up on Topamax™ and slurring her words. I
adjusted her and she got a little better but was going out
of adjustment because she was passing out and falling down.
Her blood pressure would drop. I asked her body if it was
the drug. Strong YES! I told her the medication was causing
this. Her husband did research and found approx. 2% taking
it have a drop of blood pressure, passing out, etc. She got
off of it. I began adjusting her. No more headaches!! Her
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