Filed under: a chiropractic podcast, Archive Feed, cost effectiveness, health care reform, set 1 | Tags: a chiropractic podcast, Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, Chiropractor, ChiroVoice.org, cost effectiveness, Dr. Thomas Lamar, government health reform, health, health care reform, health insurance, Kingston, Kitsap, spinal column radio
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Title: Government Health Care for Everyone? Buyer Beware. Just Ask Goldilocks.
Episode Number: 004
Host: Dr. Thomas Lamar
Show Date: 01/29/2010
Run Time: 13:44
Description: Dr. Lamar stares down the “Health Care Reform Elephant in the Room” in this tongue and cheek and thought-provoking episode. Learn why its so important that we let our voices be heard regarding health care reform, what the latest cost effectiveness studies are telling us, and how a story we all grew up on can teach us a lot about health.
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Dr. Lamar’s articles:
My Health Care Reform Proposal: The Goldilocks Plan
Government Health Care for Everyone: Buyer Beware
Group Health DC vs. PT vs. booklet study
Recent chiropractic cost effectiveness studies:
Wellmark Blue Cross/ Blue Shield Physical Medicine Study
Mercer Health and Benefits Study
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Filed under: a chiropractic podcast, Archive Feed, chiropractic 101, set 1, subluxation | Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, Chiropractor, degenerative joint disease, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, histopathology, inflammation, Kingston, kinsesiopathology, Kitsap, muscle, myopathology, nerve, neuropathophysiology, pathophysiology, spinal decay, subluxation, vertebra, vertebrae, vertebral subluxation complex
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Title: “Subluxation” and other $25 doctor words
Episode Number: 003
Host: Dr. Thomas Lamar
Show Date: 01/22/2010
Run Time: 13:48
Description: Sublu-What?? It’s a word that many people have a hard time defining, let alone pronouncing — yet it’s what we chiropractors treat. You won’t want to miss this episode as Dr. Lamar demystifies this basic chiropractic concept and health robbing condition.
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Dr. Lamar’s newspaper article: “Sublu-What??”
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Filed under: a chiropractic podcast, Archive Feed, chiropractic 101, education, set 1 | Tags: a chiropractic podcast, Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractic college, chiropractic education, chiropractic training, Chiropractor, continuing education, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, medical school
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Title: The Educational Makeup of a Chiropractor
Episode Number: 002
Host: Dr. Thomas Lamar
Show Date: 01/15/2010
Run Time: 27:57
Description: Ever wonder what it takes for a chiropractor to hang his or her shingle out? And how does it compare to a medical doctor? Dr. Lamar gives listeners a peak “under the hood” of the educational makeup of a chiropractor.
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Dr. Lamar’s chiropractic education newspaper article: “A Chiropractor’s Education Never Ends!”
Washington State Health Professional Research Resource: http://heal-wa.org/ As mandated by RCW 43.70.110.
Coulter, et al. A comparative study of chiropractic and medical education.” Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. Sep;4(5):64-75. 1998. (Here’s another summary of it).

Los Angeles College of Chiropractic curriculum.
Valahos K, Bond M. Knowledge of musculoskeletal medicine at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Australasian Musculoskeletal Medicine. May 2002:28-32. (sorry, I can’t seem to find an abstract online to link to. Here is a listing of this article from the Austrialian Association of Musculoskeletal Medicine, and here is an article written about the subject). [Update: My apologies, it seems that the “Australasian Musculoskeletal Medicine” journal was a bogus journal – ghost written by a pharmaceutical company and not peer reviewed. The subject matter of the article regarding inadequate musculoskeletal competency levels in graduating medical student was the real deal however. Here is a link to another journal, the Irish Journal of Medical Science, (which is not bogus) that reviews the same subject].
Taylor, et al. Interpretation of abnormal lumbosacral spine radiographs. A test comparing students, clinicians, radiology residents, and radiologists in medicine and chiropractic. Spine. May 1995. 15;20(10):1147-53.
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Filed under: a chiropractic podcast, Archive Feed, chiropractic 101, set 1 | Tags: AHCPR, Anchor Chiropractic, back pain, chiropractic podcast, Chiropractor, chiropratctic, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, Manga
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Title: Chiropractic 101
Episode Number: 001
Host: Dr. Thomas Lamar
Show Date: 01/08/2010
Run Time: 14:56
Description: What does a chiropractor do? If you can’t solidly answer this question, school’s in session and Dr. Lamar is at the blackboard. Enjoy this debut episdoe that starts listeners on the “chiropractic ground floor” by exposing a common misconception held by many —even some chiropractors!
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The Chiropractic 101 newspaper article.
The USA AHCPR Guidelines for Acute Low Back Pain
The Canadian Low Back Pain Manga Report
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Filed under: a chiropractic podcast, Archive Feed, introduction, set 1 | Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, Chiropractor, Dr. Thomas Lamar, health, Kingston, Kitsap, podcast chiropractor, spinal column radio
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Title: Podcast Chiropractor for Hire
Episode Number: 000
Host: Dr. Thomas Lamar
Show Date: 01/01/2010
Run Time: 16:02
Description: “Welcome to Spinal Column Radio! I hear that you are looking to hire a podcast chiropractor. Well… my name is Dr. Thomas Lamar, and I’d like to apply for that job!”
Episode 000 is not really an episode at all, but rather an introduction or orientation to our podcast. After listening, you will know who we are, what we are about, and why we are doing it. Think of it as my “job interview.” If you are new to our podcast, this is a great place to start.
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Here’s my eResume.
Practice website: www.AnchorChiropractic.net
Chiropractic College I attended: Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (LACC) – now known as the Southern California University of Health Sciences.
Our Blog: www.SpinalColumnBlog.com
The Newspaper we publish in: Kingston Community News
So, What’s a Podcast Anyway???
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