Brian Reece, Class of 2008, in the Clinical Learning Center with Dr.
Jacqueline Lloyd and a standardized patient.
(College of Medicine photo archive)
THE CHIROPRACTIC CAPER
If you’ve read this far, you know full well that we were fighting for our very
lives over accreditation. The LCME was looking for reasons to keep from
accrediting us, and Sandy D’Alemberte was helping us fight back. It was a
bruising, all-consuming battle. We tried our best to keep our eyes open for new
threats. When the medical school was created in 2000, part of the Appropriations
Act proviso required development of an implementation plan for establishment
of a school of chiropractic education at FSU. We beat this effort back into a $1
million study – and the following year, Gov. Jeb Bush vetoed a $1 million appropriation
for the chiropractic school.
To fully appreciate this, you need to realize that – at least back then – chiropractic
was not considered to be legitimate scientifically. That’s the reason no
public university in the country had established its own chiropractic school. The
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