Dr. Lane’s Thoughts V

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Dr. Lane’s Thoughts V

1) I took this quote from a colleague: “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live” – Jim Rohn. 


2) I started out in this career as a chiropractor by working for many disreputable doctors.  I cannot apologize for this – everyone has to start somewhere.  Even as a new doctor (at an older age than most new doctors, I will admit) I knew that their practices broke many of the ethics standards i had been taught in school (UBCC).  I admit to some shame as I worked for them since I knew that what I was being asked to do violated my principles (and possibly the rule of NJ).


It was as if these doctors stood in the back of the same classes I had attended at UBCC that discussed proper ethical and moral standards of being a chiropractic physician and had carefully noted every rule they intended to break.  These older doctors should have known that putting a new doctor in the position of treating their patients did not decrease the owner doctors’ liability for their behavior, but it did offer a plausible defense in the idea of “I had no idea my associate would do such a thing!  I fired him immediately, of course!” when, in fact, I had been following their EXPLICIT instructions.


I was offered countless positions through my early years to stay and work for these disreputable doctors but I always declined.  I had standards that I felt obligated to uphold even in the face of unemployment.


I am happy to report that my offices of SAFETY LANE and CHIROPRACTIC LANE follow every rule and law we are aware of.  I am very proud of what we do in our offices.  I am very proud that we run a moral and ethical shop.


It would shame the memory of my mother if she knew that I was immoral or unethical.  She died 30 days after I received my degree.  Sylvia Lane (April 12, 1922 – January 9, 2009)


What every office I worked for had in common was that the doctor had been practicing for more than 30 years (did schools teach differently back then?), none of the doctors still saw patients (A loss of perspective? Laziness? Loss of connection to ethics?), and all of them insisted on never instructing associates on diagnosis coding (then called ICD-9, now called ICD-10), or procedural coding (called CPT codes).  I was a doctor who had been placed in second-class status for the sole reason that I needed a job!


In this way I have to insist that many chiropractors earned the slimy reputation they allowed us all to be painted with!  They either seem not to care about the impression that they make to the public or they are following personal dictates that they created to put in as little work on patients as possible for the most money.


3) I spend too much time trying to find parking on the residential street that I live.  I can’t figure out if the way that people park in my neighborhood is ignorant or malicious (using enough space for two cars by parking in the middle of an area between driveways).


I have been told that these people may be parking that way to save a space for a friend or family member to park, but more often than not it is just the way that they (thoughlessly) park.



4) Unfortunately, we are still frequently confronted by a small, yet vocal minority of pseudoscientific chiropractors who continue to pedal outdated ideas that have led to a declining standing of the profession in many parts of the world



5) Turns out the span of hours in a day that you consume food and how late you stay up are directly related to the excess weight you pack on. 


This research comes on the heels of the news that the obesity rate in the U.S. is at or above 30 percent in 22 states and no state is below 21 percent. Clearly, many of you would like easy-to-use tools to improve weight management! 



Well, those two studies offer you that! The first one, from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, shows that most folks spread their food intake over 15 hours or more a day! But when study volunteers cut down their grazing time from 14 hours to 10 or 11 hours, they lost an average of 3.5 percent of their excess body weight in 16 weeks! 



The other study, from UC Berkeley, found that over a five-year period, for every hour adolescents (we bet it affects adults too) pushed their bedtime later, their body mass index went up 2.1 points! 



So apply these two simple techniques — eat for fewer hours and go to bed earlier — and you’ll lose some of that heart-harming, diabetes-inducing, joint-damaging weight! 

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