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Drug Watch and the DePuy Hip Replacement Recall

If you look at the Recommended Patient Resources link list down in the sidebar, you’ll notice a new link. It’s to a website called Drug Watch, which gives consumers information on prescription drugs, side effects (which are really the actual effects… who are we kidding here?), interactions, lawsuits, FDA alerts, and clinical trials. Basically if [...]

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Blog Posting Frequency: Ditching the Quantity and Upping the Quality

When I started The Atlas of Life in January 2009, I originally stuck to a 3-day-a-week posting schedule. My goal was to make an impact on the Internet with a chiropractic blog that had frequent postings and good SEO. Within the first 6 months, I upped my posting schedule to Monday through Friday. I felt [...]

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Examples of Blog Comment Spam and Why Akismet is Important in WordPress

One thing that the WordPress blog software comes with is the Akismet plugin. Akismet blocks all spam from making it to your blog so you don’t have to worry about. I have literally had days where over 150 spam comments made it onto The Atlas of Life. Imagine trying to sift through all comments to [...]

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Upper Cervical Websites Brought To You by Dr. Zachary Ward

My friend Dr. Zachary Ward has created a business in which he creates websites specific to Upper Cervical Chiropractors. Why am I blogging about this today? Dr. Ward is one of the most technical and web savvy docs that I know, that’s why. He has done a lot just with his own website and is [...]

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NUCCA to Offer 1 Scholarship Per Chiropractic College to the Atlanta Conference

I got this message from my friend Dr. Zach Ward last week: “NUCCA is offering 1 scholarship to 1 student in every chiropractic college to go the next NUCCA conference in Atlanta, GA. That covers their conference fees. In order to qualify for the contest, students have to submit a video answering the question: “What [...]

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Intelligence Galore and Congrats to Palmer College of Chiropractic

Last night, I just happened to check The Atlas of Life email and look at the lovely message I received from an individual calling him/herself “The Real Deal.” You frickin idiots are so lame you didn’t even read the new CCE Standards…let me see how brave you are by finding where in the new Standards [...]

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The Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) is Corrupt and Unfit to Ethically Regulate Chiropractic Colleges

The Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE), point blank, is one of the most corrupt organizations in the entire chiropractic profession, if not the most corrupt organization. How can I make this accusation, you might be asking. Let me explain. Most of us know how the CCE took away Life University’s accreditation in 2002. At the [...]

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Download the FREE Survival Guide to Chiropractic School & Your First Year Post Graduation E-Book!

Over the past 20 months, I’ve written several blog posts about things pertaining to chiropractic school. But about two months ago, I wrote Attention Chiropractic Students!!! 6 Tips to Help you Avoid the Stupid Mistakes I’ve Made and received a huge response from it. So I decided to write more blog posts geared toward chiropractic [...]

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Jason Holdahl’s Practice Needs a DC Immediately

As you may know by now, Jason Holdahl, D.C. a Palmer graduate, former MPTC and CCA Training participant, shattered his C7 and broke his T1 while diving from his boat into a shallow river. After two years of hard work he still remains paralyzed from the chest down. His wife Joelle and 4 young children [...]

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New Listing Fee on The Atlas of Life Chiropractic Directory Starting 9/15/2010

When I started The Atlas of Life Chiropractic Directory back in March, you will probably remember I was charging an initial fee, as well as a monthly fee. After a month of only one listing, I decided the fees were too high and that I really just wanted to create a good chiropractic directory in [...]

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