October 19, 2006
BIZARRE LAWSUIT FILED BY THE MEDDLESOME TEXAS MEDICAL ASSN. AGAINST BOARD OF CHIROPRACTIC
In the “why don’t they clean up their own backyard” department, nothing is more clearly deserving of the ‘YOU NEED TO GET A LIFE” AWARD, than the specious and meritless lawsuit filed by the Texas Med. ASSn. against the Texas Board of Chiropractic. A copy of this foolishness is found HERE . You will notice that they, (the TMA or Texas MEDDLESOME Association) assert that doctors of Chiropractic, do not have the right to diagnose! What idiocy. Here is a quote from their lawsuit : “
The diagnosis of medical conditions
24. Under Texas law, only physicians can diagnose medical conditions. As noted
above, the practice of medicine is defined, in part, as “the diagnosis … of physical disease ordisorder or a physical deformity or injury[.]” Tex. Occ. Code
5 151.002(a)(13). By contrast, the
practice of chiropractic is defined, in pertinent part, as the use of “objective or subjective means
to analyze, examine or evaluate the biomechanical condition of the spine and musculoskeletalsystem[.]” Tex. Occ. Code 5 201.022@)(1). Because the diagnosis of medical conditions is the
practice of medicine, the term was carefully and intentionally omitted from the definition of
chiropractic. Section 75.17(d) of the Scope of Practice rule expressly authorizes chiropractors to
diagnose medical conditions and by doing so unlawfully expands the practice of chiropractic into the practice of medicine. “
So, here’s to you TMA…the YOU NEED TO GET A LIFE award!
(insert Bronx cheer)
