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My mum's friend, in her early to mid seventies, had a bit of a fall a couple of weeks ago whilst doing her gardening. She stopped her fall, but hurt her wrist in the process.

A couple of days later, and the wrist was still sore. Couldn't get in to see a doctor so asked her chiropractor if he could authorise an x-ray., which he could, and did.

X-ray gets done, and the radiologist advises that there is a very small fracture in her wrist. She takes it to the chiro who looks at the x-rays and he determines, by the fact that the same mark appears to be in the same location on the x-ray media in several images, that it is not a fracture and is just some sort of foreign body on the imaging.

I was out for dinner with this lady and said that I'd take the word of the radiologist over the chiro, as that is their field of expertise and not the field of expertise of the chiro. She gets upset with me and tells me that she disagrees and that she trusts the chiro more than the radiologist!

I couldn't believe it. I mean, seriously! You've got a person whose training is to take medical images and how to interpret them, and then you've got a person who is trained in how to manipulate skeletal structures. C'mon.

And this is the same guy who decided to manipulate my mum after she had a fall from a ladder on to her back, before she'd had an x-ray. It turned out my mum had actually done damage to her spine and his actions had the potential to seriously harm my mum! And yet, they still believe in him! His actions were incompetent, if not negligent.