[HideousKojima]

>He was a work comp claim administrator - in the US, they are some of the worst people on the planet.

Whoah now, don't talk about my dad like that! In all seriousness though, my dad said that all the places he worked at over the years generally accepted over 99% of the claims they received.

My dad did develop a visceral hatred for chiropractors over the course of his career though.

[barbariangrunge]

Workman’s comp in Canada typically takes over seven years to process and never actually compensated you, it’s always a fraction of what you’d need to even make up for lost income

[DennisP]

I have my suspicions but I'm still gonna ask the reason for the chiropractor hate.

[LanceH]

In a discussion around worker's comp claims it would be about the chiropractor's who make all their money from worker's comp claims and accident settlements. Every person who walks in that door will need unending treatment at the chiropractor. They walk hand in hand with the ambulance chasing lawyers.

For some people this is their only experience with a lawyer and chiropractor might be when someone walks in, "slips" in their store, and they get sued. The chiropractor is one method the lawyer uses to run up the total. It's always a back pain that can never be fully diagnosed or treated.

Over the years, the chiropractic field as a whole has backed off from curing everything to being split between something in the neighborhood of a massage including joint mobility (which is fine), and the fraud.

[gnu8]

Some Chiropractors and their patients are under the impression that actual diseases and injuries can be cured by performing the manual adjustments of the body, which leads to people dying of untreated cancer, or orthopedic injuries being aggravated instead of treated properly. Not to say that there aren’t good Chiropractors who recognize their limits, but they all tend to get painted with the same brush.

[analog31]

For my neighbor when I was growing up, it was diabetes.

[HideousKojima]

Because of the countless times he had to deal with claimants going to the chiropractor and the chiropractor claiming that in order to treat their injury they need to come in three times a week for the next 20 years. I exaggerate but there are plenty of dishonest chiropractors trying to milk everything they can out of worker's comp insurance, even if it is of little to no benefit to the patient.

[tokai]

Chiropractic is a pseudoscience without any provable benefits. At best its placebo, at worst you die from it. It's literally a big scam made by a serial snake oil salesman, that has embedded itself in our health systems.

[wahnfrieden]

Chiropractors learned their trade from a ghost

Science research fraudsters could learn a lesson from them in how to get away with it