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Hopefully, members of Australia’s chiropractic community will email the web address of this page on to someone in their local media.

At first glance, Australia’s federal government creating federal registration Acts for health practitioners sounds like a dull topic for a media story.

At second glance, it is about Australia’s part of a multibillion dollar monopoly in a multi-trillion dollar global market.

At third glance, it is about either ignoring or publicising a decade’s long clandestine epidemic/pandemic.

At fourth glance, it is about restraints of trade that deny 10 million Australians of the right to choose safer options of care and be Medicare funded for that safer care.

At fifth glance, it is about culling medical pretenders from public health by closing a Medicare loophole

Registration Acts are a foundation for the restraints of trade that collectively deny trade between chiropractors and Australia's 10 million public sector patients. Similar restraints of trade successfully contain chiropractic in the private sector in various countries. Containment is worth billions of dollars to global Medicine. Equitable registration Acts threaten that monopoly.

Equitable registration Acts would benefit millions of chiropractic patients.  A story about ending the multimillion dollar decade’s long restraint of trade would interest Australia’s entire chiropractic community.

The public sector is where 50% of Australia’s 20 million citizens receive health care and where, because of government imposed trade barriers, 100% of chiropractors cannot practise full time.

An investigative journalist could discredit the excuses used by governments to justify decades of denying market access to thousands of registered chiropractors.

The big story asks: Who imposes decades of global media total silence about the full picture of harm arising from medical treatment as distinct from the patient’s disorder? Few know that harm is called iatrogenesis.

Australia's investigative journalist, John Archer, used medical data to guesstimate Australia's annual toll at 50,000 iatrogenic deaths.  Medical data inferring 346 a week seems excessive.

An epidemic/pandemic justifies 9/11 front of mind media saturation, instead total media silence keeps the lid on the iatrogenic epidemic Pandora’s Box.  

Those who create, sponsor and promote this lethal treatment have left millions of victims unaware of their impending peril. A false sense of security may have encouraged some to proceed with lethal treatment.  

A part of that patient security may be that medical registration Acts protect medical patients from lethal medical harm. Australia’s decades of iatrogenic fatalities bear mute testimony that in their instances medical registration failed to protect many thousands from lethal medical harm.

Lethal medical harm confronts the designers of the new Acts with choices.

1) Protect Medicine’s vested interests by pretending there is no iatrogenic epidemic or downplaying it to insignificance. 

2) Protect patient safety by researching the medical literature as Archer and others have done, publishing a profile of iatrogenesis and creating Acts that protect patients from iatrogenic harm.

The 1977 Webb Report showed that a majority of chiropractic patients had previously been exposed to medical diagnosis and unsuccessful treatment. Government arrangements deny millions of public patients of their access to safer chiropractic care while unnecessarily exposing many of them to the greater risk of iatrogenic harm.

Another good story could be sourced in the multimillion dollar Medicare loophole.

Medicare depends upon registration Boards to ensure qualifications; Medical Boards do not ensure that all medical providers of non-medical services first formally obtain a qualification that is equivalent to the gold standard for traditional providers of that non-medical service.

Apparently Medicare reimburses the provision of non-medical services without requiring 1) that they be evidence based 2) that the medical providers have acquired the appropriate gold standard non-medical qualification.

Is Australia's mainstream media silent about all of that because it is a dull topic?