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TEXAS BOARD OF CHIROPRACTIC EXAMINERS RULE ยง80.11 (a) Licensees shall employ their best good faith efforts to provide information and facilitate understanding to enable the patient to make an informed choice with regard to proposed chiropractic treatment. Licensees shall allow the patient to make his or her own determination on such treatment.
(b) Licensees should willingly seek consultation with other health care professionals when such consultation would benefit their patients and when such consultation is considered appropriate. (c) Licensees shall not discriminate as to which patients they choose to serve on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, creed, gender, handicap or sexual preference. (d) Licensees shall conduct themselves as members of a learned profession and as members of the greater healthcare community dedicated to the promotion of health, the prevention of illness and
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the alleviation of suffering. As such, licensees should collaborate and cooperate with other health care professionals to protect and enhance the health of the public with the goals of reducing morbidity, increasing functional capacity, increasing the longevity of the U.S. population and reducing health care costs. (e) Licensees shall recognize their obligation to help others acquire knowledge and skill in the practice of the profession. They shall maintain the highest standards of scholarship, education and training in the accurate and full dissemination of information and ideas.
Have you ever wondered how many individuals the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners has to deal with? Far from an accurate accounting, the following summary may serve to give you some idea of how large is the TBCEs “customer base.” Some simple addition of the latest reporting figures demonstrates that the TBCE regulates the equivalent of the population of a small city and deals with many more people than these numbers demonstrate. The Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners Licensing & Registration Information through January 27, 2-15 reports that there are: • 5,021 Doctors of Chiropractic with active licenses •
271 Doctors of Chiropractic whose licenses have expired
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611 Doctors of Chiropractic with an inactive license
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2,339 Doctors of Chiropractic with non-renewable licenses who will have to go through the qualification and examination processes once again
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17 Doctors of Chiropractic have probated licenses
• 372 Doctors of Chiropractic have their licenses probated because of Continuing Education verification issues •
3 Doctors of Chiropractic have suspended licenses
It seems that the TBCE is tracking the licenses of some 8,634 living Doctors of Chiropractic, not to mention maintaining the records of our deceased Doctors. •
There are 4,138 chiropractic facilities with an active registration
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197 with an expired registration.
It seems that the TBCE is tracking some 4,335 chiropractic facilities. •
There are 88 actively registered radiologic technologists tracked by the TBCE
Thus it seems that there are some 140 rad-techs registered with TBCE. All told, TBCE is working with a minimum of 13,109 licensed or registered individuals in some form, not to mention chiropractic students seeking first time licensure, out of state doctors seeking licensure in Texas, members of the legislature and members of the public who seek their assistance. More than just “a handful of chiropractors” the TBCE is the “city hall” of the chiropractic profession in Texas and it deals with the population equivalent of a Texas city.
• 52 with expired registration
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By: Drew Stevens PhD
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