WILK vs AMAAntitrust LegislationWilk vs AMA Some thirty years ago, Chester Wilk and three other chiropractors took the American Medical Association to court under the American Antitrust legislation. After 11 long years, federal court Judge Getzendanner found the AMA guilty of an illegal conspiracy to destroy Chiropractic. The aim inter alia was to maintain the monopoly that Medicine had on healthcare in the USA. They did this for example by carefully holding back research proving that Chiropractic was twice as effective as Medicine in treating injured workers. They even went as far as to subvert official state efforts to establish just how effective Chiropractic is. Judge Getzendanner's rulingIn the case of Wilk vs American Medical Association, the judge ruled that the AMA, and its cohorts, were guilty of having conspired to destroy Chiropractic, thus violating the Sherman antitrust laws.They did this by making interprofessional cooperation impossible under the guise of being 'unethical', concealing evidence of the effectiveness of Chiropractic, and conductive an enormous disinformation programme to discredit Chiropractic in order to maintain their monopoly. By claiming that Chiropractors were Quacks and that Chiropractic is unscientific, despite having full access to the Workman's Compensation finding that Chiropractic was twice as effective as Medicine in treating certain musculo-skeletal conditions, the AMA went relentlessly about its illegal campaign to destroy all opposition. SummaryJudge Susan Getzendanner issued an injunction preventing the American Medical Association from “restricting, regulating or impeding or aiding and abetting others from restricting, regulating, or impeding the freedom of any AMA members or any institution or hospital to make an individual decision as to whether or not that AMA member, institution, or hospital shall professionally associate with chiropractors, chiropractic students, or chiropractic institutions.”Return from Wilk vs AMA to CHIROPRACTIC HISTORY BOOKS Monthly Newsletter - sign up here.
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