American Medical Association (AMA)’s House of Delegates passes resolution labelling chiropractic an unscientific cult

The American Medical Association (AMA)’s House of Delegates passed a resolution labelling chiropractic as an unscientific cult. The AMA’s purpose was to prevent medical physicians from referring patients to chiropractors and from accepting referrals of patients from chiropractors, to prevent chiropractors from obtaining access to hospital diagnostic services and membership on hospital staffs, to prevent medical physicians from teaching at chiropractic college’s or engaging in any joint research, and to prevent any co-operation in the delivery of health care services. The AMA indicated that its actions reflected a genuine and reasonable concern for scientific method in patient care.