Since my flight attendant wife is working on the "Eve", I plan to get the smoker out and BBQ something. Anything with saturated fat and animal protein. If it's a cold day, the charcoal will smell even better.
Which brings me to health care and chiropractic. Can the doctor of chiropractic degree, DC, survive as it is, or morph? Primary care will be delivered by physician's assistants, PAs, or nurse practitioners, NP, or even morticians and grandmothers. With young DCs financially in trouble everywhere, what are the options? The dual degree with DC+ (naturopathy, acupuncture, nursing, physical therapy) will be hard to do because of the time and cost.
I predict the osteopath, the DO, will be the rising star, since their schools can expand without the brakes on by the AMA. The medical schools are well aware that growth in numbers of MDs also depends on training in residencies, which are not expanding. That is the show stopper. The DO schools don't seem to care.
Slow smoking is a good way to ponder the future of healthcare. Check out my new BBQ smoker!
