[ul][]Doctor of Medicine[]Doctor of Veterinary Medicine[]Doctor of Dentistry[]Doctor of Philosophy[*]Doctor Demento[/ul]Only the first is a “Doctor”? (OK, I’ll give you the last one 
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My only “doctor” comes from my nickname- “DrDeth”. I know more that the “average bear” about health care, yes. But I am not a Doctor, I “only play one on this message board” 
Above, I am only paraphrasing several "home health care’ books.
I am amoung the first to tell anyone that if you have any serious medical problems- or even MAY possibly have a serious medical problem- go see a real MD, tootsweet. Then- follow his advice. Don’t ask for or follow “medical advice” from a message board for any such ailments.
The common cold, a cancer sore, mild back pain- the sort of thing that your Doc doesn’t want you to bother him with, and can’t really help much- well, maybe then. But still be careful.
Fair enough. I’m not out to prove anything.
Please refer to the following statement from the OP. I was responding to it.
In the United States, many health care providers have doctorate-level degrees:
physician/surgeon: M.D. (doctor of medicine) or D.O. (doctor of osteopathy)
dentist: D.D.S. (doctor of dental surgery)
optometrist: D.O. (doctor of optometry)
veterinarian: D.V.M. (doctor of veterinary medicine)
podiatrist: D.P.M. (doctor of podiatric medicine)
chiropractor: D.C. (doctor of chiropractic)
Here, you won’t see these types practising with only bachelor’s degrees. In fact, I don’t think you can get a bachelor’s degree in medicine anywhere in the United States.
It’s usual to address all such people as “doctor.” (We also make no distinctions between physicians and surgeons with regard to such courtesies. They get the same medical degrees anyway.)
Almost all lawyers here also have doctorate degrees (J.D.: juris doctor), but it’s not usual to address them as “doctor.”
And of course, people with Ph.D.'s are addressed as “doctor.” Members of the faculty may alternatively be addressed as “professor.”
Oh, and even those with “doctor of divinity” degrees and other miscellaneous doctorates (Ed.D., Psych.D., etc.) are appropriately addressed as “doctor” here.
These last two are a subject of much controversy as to whether or not a PhD or Ed.D are to be addressed as “Doctor”.
But certainly anyone with their Doctorate in anything Medical (or in certain Churches- Religion/Divinity) are to be addressed as “Doctor” here in the USA.
You mean a D.D. and and Ed.D., right? I’ve never heard that it is controversial to address a Ph.D. as “doctor.” I’ve addressed every Ph.D. I’ve ever met since I was so high as “doctor,” (except my dad, of course). I thought that was the original source of “doctor” as a title.
Someone mentioned this in another thread about chiropractors recently, so at my last visit I asked mine about it.
He said that it is possible that a nervous system problem could cause someone to lose conscious control of their bladder, which was something he could help. If the problem was psychological, there wasn’t anything he could do. He also told me there was a patient he had who was having asthma attacks. Now, chiropractic adjustments can’t “cure” asthma. But if he’s adjusting him and opening up his ribcage so that he can breathe better and isn’t having asthma attacks anymore, what would you call it?
I don’t know what the requirements are in order to practice, but mine has a BS in Sports Medicine, a Doctorate in Chiropractic, and is a certified personal trainer. I swear by it, but have little more than anecdotal evidence to back it up.
Just for shits and giggles, here’s my chiropractor’s website. I’m sure someone will be along shortly to rip it apart.
I have and I’ve only ever seen one.
What are the odds?
Actually, she said,“If you’ll fathfully do your pt exercises your all fixed and shouldn’t need to come back to see me unless you have some other problem.”
According to Asimov, it is the source.
If you want a doctor with some of the knowledge a chiropractor has, look for a D.O. They train in a path that’s slightly more new age and has a whee bit of chiropractic thrown in.
The chiropractor’s subluxation is the same as the MD’s spondolisthesis. Sorry for the error.
Chiropractor tells everyone that. I’ve never met anyone yet who went to a chiropractor and haven’t been told this.
It’s a wonder we’re not all walking around in circles.
I wasn’t told that. That’s one.
I’d call it “the placebo effect.”
Opening up his ribcage??? Seriously?
If that’s the case, then there’s an awful lot of people suffering from the placebo effect after getting an adjustment.
And yes, I’m aware that was an argumentum ad populum.
He told you to wear a habit, too? Actually, practically everyone has one leg shorter than the other, but if it is only a fraction of an inch, it really doesn’t matter. For that matter, if you run on the shoulders of the roads, the inside leg is artificially shorter than the outside leg. Few people have a problem with this.
I believe that chiropractors get away with calling themselves doctors not because of their degree but because instead have “physician” status under federal law and by tradition. All chiropractors I’ve even heard of (even those told to me by my grandfather born in 1902) have always referred to themselves as doctors.
Chiropractors talk of “subluxation” and/or “life forces” that are blocked or something by misaligned skeletal systems. I don’t follow that reasoning, but what it all boils down to is that, supposedly, there are a myriad of medical problems that are caused by misaligned skeletal systems, be it one leg shorter than the other, improper curvature of the spine, rib cages being too tight and so on and so forth. It also seems that nearly everyone who ever visits a chiropractor is diagnosed as having some sort of misalignment. But can anything in the actual scientific world (JAMA, NEJOM) verify this overwhelming epidemic of misaligned skeletal systems? Can it demonstrated that the plethora of aliments attributed to these seemingly endemic skeletal disorders are actually caused by them? There is no reason to place more confidence in this assessment than in the idea that imbalances in the four humors cause illness.
Chiropractors treat their patients by manipulating their skeletal systems. Can they really do this? Can they loosen someone’s ribcage by pushing on it? Can they lengthen someone’s leg by pushing on the spine? Please.
If the diagnosis is bunk and the treatment is also bunk, then the whole thing is crap.