The Real Difference Between MD’s and DC’s

The difference between Medical Doctors and Doctors of Chiropractic is something like this: Say you have a short circuit in your house. It starts a fire. An MD would show up, put the fire out, and tell you to call if it happens again. A DC would show up, put the fire out, and figure out what caused the fire in the first place so it never happens again.

In one situation, you’re always at risk. In the other, your risk has been eliminated.

And the comparison is a little unfair to fire fighters. You can be pretty sure they’ll put out a fire, but a conventional MD often won’t help your chronic disease at all, from acne when you’re a kid to arthritis when you’re a senior. And if he does it’s probably with a prescription drug that does you untold harm while just masking the symptoms of your illness.

Chiropractic care is designed to support good health for the rest of your life. Incorporate a good DC’s advice into your healthy lifestyle, and you’ve got something that will last.

Take a look at the five values that govern DCs — all of which are centered around a natural approach to healing.

The first commits them to treating the cause of an illness instead of just suppressing the symptoms, as in conventional medicine.

Second, they follow the mantra to “First, do no harm.” Meaning they don’t recommend drugs and procedures with harmful side effects.

Patient education is the third core value. Chiropractic doctors believe being a physician means teaching, not dominating a patient.

Fourth, Chiropractic doctors treat you as a whole person instead of a combination of parts. They consider physical, mental, emotional, and environmental, before labeling anything. No cookie-cutter diagnoses, in other words.

And their last core value is to place a huge emphasis on the healing power of nature and the body’s innate ability to heal itself. This means they turn to drugs only as a last course of action.

Bottom line — Chiropractic care is designed to curb most chronic illnesses without sentencing you to a lifetime of drugs and side effects.

You hardly ever hear a medical doctor say, “Let’s figure out the cause of your problem so you can get over this without having to take drugs the rest of your life.”

Their attitude is twisted, because chronic diseases can be caused by something as simple as a nerve compression or scar tissue that never healed or low levels of a certain nutrient. It’s more common than you think.

So don’t let yourself be put on a lifetime regime of painkillers, muscle relaxers, Blood Pressure medication or cholesterol meds because your doctor doesn’t want to diagnose you correctly. Come to a doctor who has your best interests in mind.

Dr. Bartz, DC