issue-07-1997

Dr. James William Parker, 77, founder of the Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas and Parker Chiropractic Resource Foundation in Fort Worth, died Friday, November 7th, in a Dallas hospital after a long recuperation from endarterectomy and bypass surgery several weeks preciously. He was born September 20, 1920 in Snyder, Texas. A graduate of the […]

Let me begin by stating this is not going to be a “witch hunt” against practice management consultants. Quite the contrary. Most of the consultants I have heard about serve a very useful purpose and can be of tremendous help to any practitioner. The horror stories or problems that I have heard about stem from […]

It is estimated that American business and industry will lose about 93 million work days a year from workers suffering with back pain. This “down time” will cost over $20 billion. A waste? Of course. Unavoidable? Not at all. Can you make a difference? Yes, you can! How big of a piece of this multi-billion […]

With the advent of managed care (we call it managed cost), medical and specialty practice is now much more complex, particularly regarding the “business of practice.” When we first started out, a patient would come to a practitioner for services, we performed the services to the patient’s satisfaction and the patient paid for the services. […]

1. What single aspect of your background/ experiences helps you in relating to chiropractor’s unique needs and practice management obstacles? Fernandez I was lucky. I was the associate of one of chiropractic’s original consultants. He taught me how to analyze demographics, successfully start a practice, and how to run a practice by statistics. Also how […]

I suppose it would be more accurate to say that a war is waging; whether we decide to fight is still to be decided. At risk is who will provide drug testing for the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) regulated industries (and other federal programs) and the vast private unregulated market. Indeed, drug testing is […]