Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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well anyhow, or maybe just a msage would do. There wen$ schools fbr
chiropractic. The butcher, the baker and the candlestick~rraker, would
take a six mnths course or something like that and he cops out with a
doctor title. He's not elegible for takhg his license ep.mlnation.
They got the Ikpartment of Registration and Education abol)t that th or
later. They got it so arranged that they were doing the 4ducational part,
too, making schools accredited. They had to be accredLte4 and they had to
I rermnber one streetcar conductor went and came back
be of longer term.
to Springfield and practiced after a very short tim
school over in Davenport, Iowa, which is right on o
got a lot of En. I don't remer ever hearing o
It was just not enough training. They didn't have e
Q. At this tim there was a state exam for osteopaths? I
A. No.
Q. That cam later and chi~opmcters too?
A. Yes, chimpracters were longer in coming. I thhk thq osteopath@ were
not so long. They had a school over in I'tissouri that was quite good, but
that was more for trainin@; and all. They had some kind o# an arrmgqmnt
where they could give them a thorough background, pretty thorough. But they
all had to get up to four years of training.
4. Did you ever get in trouble with the patients who tho their doctor
was fine and you were trying to blow the whistle on him?
A. No, no. They didn't know that I was-I didn't tell twm much about that.
I just wanted to know if he was a good doctor. You just wve to have a
little conversation, you see.
Q. What would be your excuse to go in and talk to a patiqt or a patient's
family?
A. Well, you'd have the doctor's name because it 'd been reported to the
state depart~nt. You'd have where he was. And then you rind out who's
the patient. Often these are ' lit$ le towns, you know, can find
out things like that. Then you get the nams of the
will
tell you the details. In fact, the person who mtes
would be the one that would say that they knew that this was practicing,
and you could get the names fkom them.
Q. But then you would have to go and interview the patient?
A. Yes. Well, it wouldn't necessa,rily be the patfent; it! could be the
parent. It could be the parent or the sister or the brother or somthing
like that that would have to say, yes, it [the patient] wa$ treated.
Q. Well, I guess what I was trying to get at, didn't you ever ma? into a
case where the patient thowt the doctor was helping him @nd was antagonistic
to you.
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