Posted by
Allan Radman on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:16:26 PM
November 2007
Having an interest in eating, breathing, and my personal health (and its avoidance of Type 2 diabetes that has established itself in my family's genetic swimming pool), I have quit my semiconductor process engineering career and began to pursue a medical career - albeit in chiropractic.
I chose chiropractic for a several reasons - the most important being that I am now 51 years new. I asked several medical doctors, both of whom I am related, for advice about pursuing the standard issue medical degree at my unadvanced age. Both agreed that due to my unadvanced age, chiropractic was the better way to go.
Unfortunately for my genetic swimming pool, my brain never developed to the point that my relatives did. Maybe it was the Canadian air (or hockey) that failed to make its way south towards Pennsylvania, where I grew up?
But be that as it may, chiropractic saved my bacon (Canadian bacon has a lot less fat) and extended my football playing career until the end of that season. It was 1969 and my arm wasn't responding to orders from my brain. My mom took me to a chiropractor and with one adjustment, my arm was new again. Fast forward to 2002 and an auto accident. My car was totaled because a mass transit vehicle made a left turn at a red light. My head smacked the ceiling of the car as the front end of my Integra met the front end of a large truck as it entered my lane of travel. The medical doctor I saw showed me x-rays of my cervical spine (C-spine). The natural curve (lordosis) was not present. He told me "this is the reason for the pain" I was experiencing in my neck and shoulder. Another medical doctor told me (and I quote), "this too shall pass." Thanks doc - my neck feels so much better now that I know this too shall pass.
Going way back to graduate school and really using my master's degree in chemical engineering, I have learned to write equations. Hence, painful back + chiropractor adjusting me = not painful back, was written on the back of my diploma from an accredited university with a football team in the Big East. Well, there are good medical doctors and bad medical doctors as there are good chiropractors and bad chiropractors - just like everything.
So here it is, regardless of your political persuasion, my reading list related to my new career (listed not in any particular order):
1) Complications - A Sugeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, by Atul Gawande, MD.
2) Who Killed Healthcare? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - And the Consumer-Driven Cure, by Regina Herzlinger, DBA.
3) How Doctor's Think, by Jerome Groopman, MD.
4) Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, by Walter C. Willett, MD.
5) The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding, by Arnold Schwartzenegger.
6) Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat, by H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, MD, Sam S. Andrews, MD, and Luis A. Balart, MD.
7) Designing Resistance Training Programs, by Steven J. Fleck and William J. Kraemer.
8) Body for Life, by Bill Phillips.
9) Weight Training for Dummies, by Liz Neporent and Suzanne Schlosberg.
10) Interactive Atlas of Human Anatomy, by Frank H. Netter, MD.
11) Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy, by Frank H. Netter, MD.
12) Primal 3D Interactive Series - Complete Human Anatomy, by Primal Pictures Ltd.