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A Florida chiropractor signed hundreds of mask exemption forms for students. Now, the district has...
A school district in Sarasota County, Florida, has tightened its mask policy after a chiropractor signed hundreds of medical exemption forms that allowed students to opt out of wearing masks in...
cnn.com
7:33 AM · Sep 26, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/us/florida-chiropractor-mask-exemption/
(CNN) A school district in Sarasota County, Florida, has tightened its mask policy after a chiropractor signed hundreds of medical exemption forms that allowed students to opt out of wearing masks in schools, officials said.
The Sarasota County School Board had voted in August to implement a 90-day mandatory mask policy for students, employees, visitors and vendors, with exceptions for medical reasons or if wearing a face mask would not be consistent with a student's Individualized Education Plan.
Then on September 1, the district updated its policy to only accept medical exemption forms from licensed medical doctors, osteopathic physicians or advanced registered nurse practitioners, Superintendent Brennan Asplen said in a letter to families and employees.
The decision was due in part to a chiropractor who signed hundreds of medical forms exempting students from the mask mandate, a district official told CNN. Chiropractors are not medical doctors.
The school district has rejected about 650 medical exemption forms, the "majority" of which were signed by Dan Busch, a chiropractor at Twin Palms Chiropractic in Venice, it said.
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Maraya1969
(22,479 posts)Grins
(7,217 posts)If I was a local parent and my kid got Covid from one of his "patients," there would be one hell of a lawsuit.
No one sees a chiropractor for shit like this, so he did it for one reason - MONEY!
traitorsgalore
(1,396 posts)cojoel
(957 posts)it is hard to for me see how wearing a mask would affect the health of someone suffering from spinal subluxation.
snort
(2,334 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,789 posts)Sign this one, chiropractor.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Apparently he did it as a noble public service. An ethics complaint has been filed with the Florida Department of Health, which licenses chiropractors. A medical exemption should be preceded by proper evaluation, including physical. No idea if chiropractors would be considered qualified to issue this type of exemption.
Nevilledog
(51,094 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)If this doesn't fail standards, hard to imagine anything would, short of performing adjustments by running people over with a truck.
Disaffected
(4,554 posts)only sanctioned by their "licensing" body for financial indiscretions. Medical quackery or malpractice are almost always ignored.
If chiropractors were compelled to practice only science based medicine, and for fields in which they are qualified, most would go out of business.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Should be incredible.
Thanks.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)What's next? Exemptions from acupuncturists? Reiki practitioners? Homeopaths?
FFS.
Sid
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)Get your mask exemptions here, $50.00 cash only.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)But yeah, you got it.
spanone
(135,831 posts)Disaffected
(4,554 posts)May as well get the Rug Doctor (whose still steamin' mad at dirt).
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)they are the butt of so many jokes,,,,,
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)He has about as much knowledge in virology as most chiropractors. I love my Chiro, but he is not an infectious disease guy. He is not an MD, he is not even a phd, he is a guy who makes me feel better when my back hurts.
calimary
(81,238 posts)MiniMe
(21,714 posts)Nothing at all as far as I can see.