Eliminate the Chiropractic Profession? The Truth about Medicine's Attack on Chiropractic

This reads like a movie script but it really happened.  I hope it is enlightening:

"In October 1976, Chester Wilk, D.C. and four other chiropractors (one later dropped out) filed suit against the AMA. The Wilk suit also named many of the nation's other most prominenet medical groups as codefendants-groups such as the American Hospital Association, the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Physicians, and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals.

The suit claimed that the defendants had participated for years in an illegal conspiracy to destroy chiropractic. On August 24, 1987, after endless wrangling in the courts, U.S. District Court judge Susan Getzendanner ruled that the AMA and its officials were guilty, as charged, of attempting to eliminate the chiropractic profession.

In 1987 (1) , following 11 years of legal action, a federal appellate court judge ruled that the AMA had engaged in a “lengthy, systematic, successful and unlawful boycott” designed to restrict cooperation between MDs and chiropractors in order to eliminate the profession of chiropractic as a competitor in the United States health care system".

During the preceedings it was shown that the AMA attempted to:

1. •   Undermine Chiropractic schools
   •   Undercut insurance programs for Chiropractic patients
   •   Conceal evidence of the effectiveness of Chiropractic care
   •   Subvert government inquires into the effectiveness of Chiropractic
   •   Promote other activities that would control the monopoly that the AMA had on health care
       (This was upheld by the 7th United States Circuit Court of Appeals.)

The full text URL is below and makes for some very good reading concerning how the defendants ( the American Medical Association and others) had participated for years in an illegal conspiracy to destroy chiropractic. They ( the AMA) lost but you as the patient won.

http://www.chiro.org/Wilk/