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From: Lester Lamm [mailto:LLamm@...]

Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011

12:03 PM

Sharron Fuchs

Subject: RE: Our scope of practice

/ dry needling

Sharron:

You will be interested to learn

that chiros came to Oregon before

1904, D.D. Palmer himself was reported to have visited Oregon before 1904. 1904 is a

significant date only because it marks the beginning of the string of

chiropractic institutions leading to the University of Western States.

The separation of chiropractic and naturopathy, something that occurred on

the WSCC campus, was not a very pleasant experience for any of the

participants. There have been a couple of occasions since the split when

consideration was given to rejoining.

Lester

From: Sharron Fuchs

Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011

11:38 AM

Subject: FW: Our scope of practice

/ dry needling

Dr. ,

It is a good point. What we need to learn

and remember (and please some of the more experienced DCs chime in here) is

that our Oregon

school was started in 1904. I don’t know if DCs were here before that (Lester

Lamm, the historian, tell us) but our practice and our laws that have been

tested were for us to be PCPs. We can deliver babies. We can do minor surgery.

We can sign death certificates. Somehow, perhaps when the DC/ND schools split,

we painted ourselves and then others painted us in to a corner. But, this is

now and today, and we need to expand back into our laws and into our intended

scope of practice. We have to do this because the public wants this, the

medical home concept needs it, there is a shortage of PCPs and we need to

survive as a viable profession. We must stretch back into our laws. The issue

with dry needling was there for us to take. We did not have to go to the

legislature and ask for a change in our laws as it was there all along it just

needed vision to see it. What else is there in our laws already?

I wonder why the DC/ND schools didn’t just

merge in to one school? If that had happened things today would be very

different for us here in Oregon.

s. fuchs dc

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