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Michael Pedigo has passed on but the chiropractic profession needs to take on board his words and vision.

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I was saddened to hear one of the five plaintiffs from the Wilk case  Michael Pedigo  passed away on the 10/10/2010. The Wilk case should have been a watershed for the chiropractic profession. The book is a must read for chiropractors who care about their profession and where its headed unless they can put their egos away and work for the profession rather than self interest. It amazed me how difficult it was for Chester Wilk  to get the chiropractic profession to unite behind him to fight for something that was in the entire professions common interest.   After their victory over the AMA in 1990 Wilk  pleaded with the Chiropractic profession to unite in; “educating and redirecting the thinking in the minds of many people as to what really constitutes rational, safe and effective health care. We won in the legal arena now we need to win in the public arena.” Chester Wilk gave up on trying to change chiropractors mind set some years ago however, Michael Pedigo kept going and I was fortunate enough to meet him when I was president of the student union in the mid 90s. representing AECC at the Centennial celebration in Davenport in [...]

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