Allen Botnick DC Internet: aljbotnick@yahoo.com http://chirotalk.proboards3.com Company Information: Allen Botnick DC 831 Linden Ave Apt 5D Elizabeth, New Jersey 07202 Ph. 908-345-0856 Media Contacts: Allen Botnick DC aljbotnick@yahoo.com 908-345-0856 Twelve Percent Of Practicing U.S. Chiropractors Unqualified, Says Allen Botnick DCFor Immediate ReleaseELIZABETH, N.J./EWORLDWIRE/Nov. 15, 2004 -- - The sole accrediting agency for U.S. chiropractic institutions, the Council on Chiropractic Education, recently admitted to the U.S. Department of Education that thousands of chiropractors were granted degrees from accredited programs that did not meet the minimum requirements for practice, raising patient safety concerns throughout the nation. In a vaguely worded open letter dated November 8, 2002, the agency stated that between 1995 and 2002 its own Board of Directors had been influenced by outside agencies and that the presidents of an undisclosed number of chiropractic programs influenced its accreditation decisions. The agency refused to disclose the exact programs and numbers of students involved, but a conservative estimate shows that at least 12 percent of chiropractors practicing in the U.S.A. are affected. In complaints submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, Allen Botnick DC, a 1996 honors graduate from Life University, documented extensive corruption and abusive practice in his program. His complaints detail a program designed to mislead students into accepting insurance fraud and jeopardizing patient safety through a system of false diagnosis and overutilization. Botnick's complaint included documentation of two students and one faculty member who died as a result of following the program. Graduates of this program alone make up 20 percent of all practicing chiropractors. The accreditor initially stonewalled Botnick's complaint, but a demand by the U.S. Department of Education confirmed its accuracy. So far the accreditor has made no public admission of the problems, however. Because of the lack of action by the agency, state boards have failed to remove unqualified chiropractors from practice. In fact one board, the Georgia Board of Chiropractic Examiners, comprised mainly of Life University graduates, shelved a request to investigate the matter. HTML: