![]() Apparently much of our profession feels we can still compete with them in the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions. We cannot hope to compete with them in those areas. (They have made virtually no progress in the restoration and maintenance of health.) They are wiping out diseases (polio, smallpox), and they are prolonging death. As much as we hate to admit it, it is true. Medicine is getting better and better at the treatment and prevention of diseases. If we present chiropractic as a treatment of a disease of any kind, in any way (even as the treatment for the “cause of disease”), eventually we, as a profession, will go the way of Clearview. We know that medicine’s success is in the treatment of disease not the restoration of health. Drugs can do that faster and more effectively, in most cases, than can chiropractic. We are talking about people feeling better, acting more like the accepted standard that society has set and keeping their symptoms, in this case, aberrant behavior, under control. Remember, we are not talking about an individual being healthy again, which is what Clearview was offering under the guise of treating mental problems. A different attitude toward the mentally ill, psychotherapy, and especially psychotropic drugs have drastically improved medicine’s success with mental disorders, so much so that it caught up to and passed the successes of Clearview. As much as we chiropractors criticize medicine it has come a long way in the treatment of many diseases and this one is an example. Medicine was still in the 19th century when it came to the treatment of the mentally ill and the 19th century was not far removed from the Dark Ages. For a while it was doing great, not because chiropractic is a fantastic treatment for mental disorders but because medical treatment was so poor by comparison. It closed because it was trying to compete with medicine in the treatment of a disease (medical conditions of the mind). ![]() I imagine there were many contributing factors, but the basic cause is one that speaks to us as chiropractors today. ![]() A student asked me recently why the Clearview Sanitarium closed, especially since it was getting such fantastic results in the correction of mental disorders. ![]()
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