I just started working as a receptionist for a chiropractor. I don’t
think the job is going to last long. The chiropractor, my boss, is a
quack. I took a call the other day from a new patient. Part of the
protocol with new patients is to ask the condition they need treated.
New patient says diabetes. I tried my best to hold in a laugh and told
her chiropractors can’t cure diabetes. My boss who was between
appointments at the time and so was standing a few feet away, ran over
and ripped the phone out of my hand to talk to the new patient. He
assured the patient he has treated many people before for diabetes and
with great success and scheduled an appointment. When he hung up the
phone he yelled at me for what I said. Then he gave me a 20 minute
lecture about how I shouldn’t make those claims because I obviously
know nothing about “chiropractic science” and told me a few stories of
patients he has cured. He “cured” one lady of her thyroid issue, a
whole family of people with some kind of genetic disorder, a baby with
cystic fibrosis. He said he’s cured two people of cancer. The kicker
is that he said his jackpot would be to find someone with HIV/AIDS and
treat them for it, because he knows exactly what to do with someone
like that. I thought this job was with a respected medical
professional. As soon as I find something else, I am done here. I
can’t be a part of his lies.
And here I thought the only thing they coulf fix was a back ache.
Hello, everyone. Back from my Christmas vacation.
They only treat back aches and migraines. So op is right her boss is full of it.
Hi, guys! Hope everyone had a happy New Year’s celebration. I bought a hooker and had her give the midnight kiss to my dick, like I usually do.
As for this lying chiropractor, OP is definitely doing the right thing. I’m surprised his former patients haven’t sued him yet. But then again, he could be like the surgeon I heard about once. A friend of mine went to see him long ago.
“Before you give me the anaesthetic, Doc, you DID say all your patients were well satisfied?”
“Actually, I said that no one has ever complained.”
My dear OP, there are many chiropractors who would like to think they are doctors, and they run around ‘curing’ diseases with all sorts of quackery.
There are chiropractors who stick to what they know, but there are many who are not so ethical.
As my dear late father used to say, “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.”
Chiropractors being total quacks? I’m shocked.
i got screwed so good one time i had to see a chiro the next day to get my back in order again….hahaha…it was great….
and ya know what else was great? my christmas and new years….what all did you guys get? anything cool or exciting???
Change “chiropractor” to “faith healer” and I bet Walter would wonder what the problem was. I think this story describes a lot of chiropractors.
what? he taking my job, fool! nah in all seriousness, OP on your way out drop a line to your medical association – quacks like that shouldn’t be allowed to practice any sort of medicine
i don’t see what the problem is. the chiropractor had to go through a 1 year of medical school.
plus, he’s just trying to make ends meet since his second divorce. he’s got alimony to pay for 2 ex’s.
The Oxford Comma, faith healers are entirely different from chiropractors. I reckon if more people prayed to the Lord they would be cured of that which ails them and they would not need to resort to charlatans. God heals all.
I think you’re right, Oxford. Our ol’ Walt would be A-OK with those bungholes on TV like the appropriately-named Creflo Dollat who do the “I shall HEE-UHL YOU!!” crap in exchange for soaking up the money. (That guy is one of the worst with his “God wants us to be rich” crap and his private jet and such)
OP, you should totally quit and report this guy.
Hope everybody had a good new year celebration. Except you and your hookers, Moore – do you get good ones or the cut-rate ‘paper bag on head’ variety? I spent mine at my favorite cocktail lounge, where the bartender – suddenly realizing at 11:50 that everyone at the bar were regulars and friends – put 23 glasses of Champagne on his own tab and gave one to every customer (at the bar, at least) and all the employees. It’s a good sign you’re a regular when only 2 of the 6 drinks you ordered show up on your tab.
Unfortunately, chiropractors are licensed here. Which means, the state believes that the puffery chiropractors use actually works in treating people.
Damn placebo affect.
“Awaiting moderation” which, I assume, means it won’t make it, so I’ll repost.
OP, you should totally quit and report this guy. If he convinces patients that he can heal serious ailments, maybe the placebo effect will do it. And maybe it won’t and by the time they get to the kind of doctor they actually need, it’ll be too late. In my opinion, it’s a moral obligation to report him.
Hope everybody had a good new year celebration. Except you and your hookers, Moore – do you get good ones or the cut-rate ‘paper bag on head’ variety? I spent mine at my favorite cocktail lounge, where the bartender – suddenly realizing at 11:50 that everyone at the bar were regulars and friends – put 23 glasses of Champagne on his own tab and gave one to every customer (at the bar, at least) and all the employees. It’s a good sign you’re a regular when only 2 of the 6 drinks you ordered show up on your tab.
“Awaiting moderation.”
OP, you should totally quit and report this guy. If he convinces patients that he can heal serious ailments, maybe the placebo effect will do it. And maybe it won’t and by the time they get to the kind of doctor they actually need, it’ll be too late. In my opinion, it’s a moral obligation to report him.
Hope everybody had a good new year celebration. Except you and your hookers, Moore – do you get good ones or cheap ones? ‘Cuz good ones ain’t cheap anmd cheap ones ain’t good. I spent mine at my favorite cocktail lounge.
All my attempts are awaiting moderation.
OP, I’d say it’s a moral obligation to report the guy. If he convinces patients that he can heal serious ailments, maybe the placebo effect will do it. And maybe it won’t and by the time they get to the kind of doctor they actually need, it’ll be too late.
Hope everyone had a happy celebration. I spent mine in my favorite bar, where the bartender – suddenly realizing at 11:50 that everyone at the bar were regulars and friends – put 23 glasses of Champagne on his own tab and gave one to every customer (at the bar, at least) and all the employees. I was gonna just buy him a shot, but…wow. (I bought him a shot later)
OP, Please please please don’t quit your job! This stuff is pure comedy gold. We need you to submit weekly updates and stories about this guy.
As for my chiropracter, I don’t feel I can really trust him either. I was in his office last week, I told him I had a sore throat and he told me to pull down my pants!
That sounds like the set-up for a joke, Elvis Hitler. OP, please do not quit your job. Begin gathering evidence that he tells customers he can cure serious diseases. Begin looking for a new job. Then take it to the medical professionals and get his license revoked, so that he cannot pull his potentially deadly scams on anyone else– which, it seems, he is pulling only to boost his own ego (at the expense of, potentially, the lives of his patients–!!)
Keith, my slow-witted buddy, that WAS the joke.
I dunno, I guess if anyone is stupid enough to believe a chiropractor can cure those things…survival of the fittest. It’s like believing your hairdresser can cure ugly.
Serves me right for posting before I have had my morning tea. If I do not get my cup of tea, I tend to be a little bit slow until things pick up after noon.
People are trained, I’ll use that word, to believe doctors. I wouldn’t call it stupid, exactly, to believe a chiropractor. When most people don’t know what, exactly, a chiropractor DOES, it might be easier to convince ‘em. ‘Specially if OP’s boss is spreading the lies on thickly. It does sound like the only reason he’s making these claims is to keep patients long-term and to make himself look powerful.
I just had a bad experience with a Chiropractor and I’m inclined to agree with the “Faith Healer” label. What a bunch of quacks.
When I was a kid, my doctor told me he could take my temperature by inserting two fingers in my butt. I could never figure out why both of his hands were on my shoulders. And today, it suddenly occured to me. I am not sure how I should feel.
hey, chiropractic therapy relieves stress on the body’s nervous system, thus allowing it’s immune system to work at optimal levels.
Or something like that. You hear it a lot with allergies..
I’m skeptical.
I love my chiropractor, when I’m having back pain. I don’t give her a thought, otherwise.
Donovan, I reckon your doctor was using a thermometer and not his fingers. However, I am confused as to how he could take your temperature without the use of his hands. Perhaps he gripped the shaft of the thermometer with his foot?
My uncle went to a chiropractor once. Broke his neck. He was dead in a fortnight and now my uncle is serving a life sentence.
I have never been to a chiropractor. There is not one around here. Grandma used to go to a place to get her back straight, she says, but it was an oriental massage parlor. She said those little asian women can work magic. I do not know, grandma always still complained about the crick in her neck.
That sounds inappropriate, Donovan. Intimate touching such as massages should only happen within the confines of marriage, lest one be tempted to give into fornication.
Dono, you sound… different than you used to sound…..
Patricko, I guess that is because my only access to the Internet is here at the local library and they only have dial-up connection. So, rather than try to be myself, I end up typing as quickly as I can before the connection is interrupted by a phone call. Gosh, I cannot wait until I can pay the phone company back all the money I owe.
Indeed, I once knew a man who had a friend who knew a fellow who went to get a massage, and he ended up in jail.
It was shocking, my lovely niece Molly was scandalized. We had to unsubscribe from the newspaper.
Hey All
The New Age Chiropractors beleive they can cure all if your spine is inline. Diabetes,add,cancer etc.
A lady who works in my office swears by this. I went to see her doc and thought he was nuts.
I had a doctor that shoved her finger up my ass without warning. She claimed it was a check up but I have never heard of that for female.
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Kate, maybe she just missed. Wrong hole, you know. Were her eyes closed?
No, that’s why I was so freaked out. I ended up switching doctors after another incident after that.
There is great money to be made out of people’s gullibility. Faith is a powerful force, especially if you are a snake who want to screw people out of their money.