Meet Dr. Harte

I am a chiropractor. I am not a healer. I am not within any branch of alternative or complementary or integrative medicine. I serve pure, unadulterated, “straight” Chiropractic. To add anything to it (Chiropractic) would be to diminish its value, and to, thereby, diminish my service to you. I am a chiropractor.

As a child, I was a medical nerd. I used to watch all the medical shows of the era (late 50’s/early 60’s) on TV… Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare… with a notebook, a Merck Manual and a medical dictionary. By the time he was eight years old, I “knew” that I would be a medical doctor, probably an orthopedist.

I went to college and completed my pre-med studies, earning a B.A. in Biology from Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. I spent two years in medical college, at La Faculté de la Médècine de Marseille in France.

I witnessed my father permanently maimed (from spinal surgery) and then killed (by the medical treatment of his diabetes, and the subsequent failure to provide adequate emergency care for the resultant massive cardiac infarction… heart attack) by medical foolishness, indifference and gross incompetence. While my training and medical socialization led me to believe that Chiropractic was quackery, a desperate health emergency of my own led a friend to get me to see a chiropractor. This chiropractor, Dr. Douglas Eglauf (White Plains, N.Y.), literally saved my life.

So… I quit medical school, took no credits, and enrolled in New York Chiropractic College. At N.Y.C.C., I was a founding member of the Patient Education Committee, and a student teaching assistant in technique (adjusting) classes for Dr. Frank DeGiacomo. While still in school, I had an article published in OMNI magazine about cancer, foolish medical perspectives, and Chiropractic. (Click on the link, PUBLISHED ARTICLES.) I graduated with Merit in December of 1980. My wife, Carole, and I moved to California, to Marin County, where I began practice in October, 1981.

My son, Abraham, is the epitome of what can happen when a child has had chiropractic care since birth (adjusted at 5 minutes old, actually), allowing Innate Intelligence to express itself fully. Abraham was virtually never sick as a child. On the occasion that he didn’t feel 100%, he would say “Daddy, adjust me.” I would adjust him, and he would be fine in fifteen or twenty minutes.

Abraham is a sixth grade drop-out. At the age of 11, he enrolled in the College of Marin. (The “baby face” on the college ID card was pretty funny.) In May, 1999, at the age of 14, he graduated with four associate's degrees. He was accepted as a transfer student (one of only eight) at Cal Tech in Pasadena, California, home to over thirty Nobel laureates. In the summer of 1999, he had a full-time, paid position at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, assisting in a project looking into the origins of the universe. Abraham graduated from Cal Tech, with honors, when he was 17, with a Bachelor’s in physics. In August, 2007, he received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Penn State at the age of 22. Now, he's finishing his position as a post-doctoral Fellow at the prestigious Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago. His next stop? Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany.

            I firmly believe that every child deserves to be able to express his or her potential with Chiropractic, as soon after birth as possible. Even better if the parents have been adjusted well before conception. Does that sound a bit radical? Well, it may be radical within the context of today’s “Fast, Fast Relief”… artificial parts… faked pharmaceutical research… bought government health officials… overall medical insanity. Every new idea sounds radical at first, like democracy, flush toilets, automobiles, electric lights, computers, cell phones, etc.

I have been in private practice in Marin County, California for almost three decades. I continues to work tirelessly to get the word out about Straight (Wellness, Vertebral Subluxation-centered Chiropractic, to serve as many people as possible, especially whole families, with the highest level of Chiropractic care, allowing for a brighter and healthier future for the individual, the family and the community.

I take what I do very seriously, though my office is generally the most fun part of anyone’s day who comes by. I am constantly studying and thinking, expanding my knowledge and skills, refining my techniques of both analysis and adjustment, to serve you better.

Because of my concern about the quality of his profession, I now coach other chiropractors from around the world. I write extensively, both in the popular press (click on the link, http://www.chirodrharte.com/templates20/custom-content/1published_articles) and in the chiropractic press, doing my best to make sure that people understand the proper role of Chiropractic… the detection, removal and prevention of Vertebral Subluxation Complex, the most serious threat to anyone’s health, and to the full expression of their potential. Towards that end, also, I publish a weekly ezine for the public, the HARTE OF HEALTH, available at no charge. Make sure that you sign up for it. Click on http://www.chirodrharte.com/templates20/contact.html.

I am an activist within my profession, spending considerable time and effort. I am known for my resistance to unwarranted government restriction and abuse of real Chiropractic, and real Chiropractors. I have been instrumental in the firing of staff members of the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners, and the restructuring of the Board itself by the Governor. Within the profession, I am known as “The Chiropractic Avenger.”

My real thoughts about the “Big Vision” of Chiropractic? "To merely consider the importance of Chiropractic to an individual, even when it is greatly life-enhancing, even when it is literally life-saving, is short-sighted. As we are considering the fuller expression of an individual's potential on a physical, mental and social basis through Wellness Chiropractic Care, we must consider how much better that individual, and other individuals enjoying Chiropractic, will function as part of the family, of the community, of America. Would you want your local school bus driver to be functioning at 100%, or less? How about the mechanic fixing your brakes, or the pilot of the plane that you will be taking on vacation, or the air traffic controller, or your legislators, or the PG&E linemen after a bad winter storm, or your local police and fire people, the servicemen and women defending our country, your children's teachers, your friends, your parents, your spouse, and most of all, your kids? 100%, or less? Better individuals in better families in better communities in a better world, or not? That is the totality of the decision to be part of Big Vision of Chiropractic."

Do I fit into the mold of the popular perception of what a chiropractor should be (a fixer of bad backs and necks)? Absolutely not, and proud of it! Serving you with the best chiropractic care that I can provide is far more important than me “fitting in.” I don’t care about fitting in. I care about serving you. I am not part of the medical model. Frankly, I am appalled by chiropractors who attack Medicine, and then try to copy their ways. They end up as third-rate medical doctors. I decided to be a chiropractor. Your nervous system, your health, your life is at stake. Everyone with a spine and a nervous system… everyone… need chiropractic care for health, for life. I will help you.

 

 

My Curriculum Vitae...

1968-72: Adelphi University. Garden City, New York. B.A. in Biology.

1972-74: La Faculté de la Médècine de Marseille. Marseille, France.

1977-80: New York Chiropractic College. Greenvale, New York (since moved to Seneca Falls, New York). D.C. (Doctor of Chiropractic). Certificate of Merit. Founding member of Patient Education Committee.

TEACHING:

1978-80: Student teaching assistant in chiropractic adjusting technique classes at New York Chiropractic College.

2006-Present: Guest teaching on Chiropractic Philosophy at Life West Chiropractic College

CLINICAL:

1981-Present: Private practice: Pediatric and Adult Wellness Chiropractic. 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS, POSITIONS AND AWARDS:

World Chiropractic Alliance:
     Member, International Board of Governors
     Special Achievement Award, 2004
     Chiropractor of the Year, 2006

Federation of Straight Chiropractors and Organizations

Council on Chiropractic Practice, Board of Directors, Secretary

Chiropractic Leadership Alliance, “Doctor of the Month,” August, 2003

Association for the History of Chiropractic

Council on Chiropractic Philosophy, International Chiropractic Association

Israel Doctors of Chiropractic

United Chiropractic Association (U.K.)

 

PRESENTATIONS:

 1985: "Thermography and Chiropractic" North Bay Society, California Chiropractic Association

1985: "Thermography and Chiropractic" Industrial Claims Association of San Francisco

1986: "Thermography and Chiropractic" Santa Clara Society, California Chiropractic Association

10/16/99: Marin Child Care Council, "ADHD: The Drug Threat to Children vs. The Natural Approach"

4/3/01: Twin Cities Co-Op Pre-School parents, “How to Raise a Healthy, Drug-Free Family.”

4/30/04: “Thermography and Chiropractic: A Historical Perspective” World Chiropractic Alliance Annual Summit

5/06/06: “The War Within, and For, Chiropractic,” World Chiropractic Alliance Annual Summit

5260/07: “Talking Straight,” at Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic, at Lyceum, and annual (philosophical) gathering of chiropractors, a tradition began in the 1920’s by B.J. Palmer, D.C.

7/19/07: “Standing Up to the (Chiropractic) Board,” at Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic

11/14/07: “The Board, the Principle… Success!”  Dead Chiropractic Society

4/28/08: “The Principle: Where To Take Chiropractic Now” California Jam

Presentations to various civic organizations: "Chiropractic: The Big Vision"

In-office presentations: “Chiropractic: The Big Idea”

ARTICLES, etc.:

11/79: "Natural Defense" Omni Magazine (Rebuttal of cover story “Cancer Cure at a Billion Dollars a Pound,” that was touting the then newly discovered, naturally occurring substance, interferon, that was, going to be the magic cure for cancer. History has proved me correct. Written and published when I was a chiropractic student.)

4/85: "Seeing Subluxation With Thermography," Journal of the California Chiropractic Association

11/98 and 7/99: "Another View on Health," Marin Independent Journal

12/17/99: "Children Needing Vaccines is a Myth," an op ed piece in the Marin Independent Journal

5/28/00: "By Giving Children Certain Drugs We Are Playing Russian Roulette With Their Lives," an op ed piece in the Marin Independent Journal 

12/00: "Children's Path to Health" in "The Backfence," newsletter of the Ross Valley Mothers Club

4/01: “Chiropractic and Colic” in “The Backfence.”

4/01: “Inside-Out Revolution,” Journal of the California Chiropractic Association

1/02: “To X-Ray or Not To X-Ray,” The Chiropractic Journal

5/30/03: “Where is the danger in Chiropractic?” op ed in the San Francisco Chronicle (about the safety of Chiropractic, vs. the very real dangers of Medicine)

1/27/04: “Alternative to the sting of a failed flu vaccine” op ed in the San Francisco Chronicle

10/08/04: “Time for a ‘regime change’ in attitude about medicine” op ed in the San Francisco Chronicle

05/05: “Generations of Unbridled Power,” The Chiropractic Journal

03/06: “The Final Battle: Will You Join RCS… To Change Everything?” The Chiropractic Journal

11/01/07: “Is there a vaccine for ‘Non-Science?’” Marin Independent Journal

11/01/07: “Is there a vaccine for ‘Non-Science?’” Marin Independent Journal

03/04/08: “Psychotropic drugs and shootings” San Francisco Chronicle

Spring/08: “The Future of Chiropractic” Journal of the California Chiropractic Association

04/09: “Seize the Time” The Chiropractic Journal

9/09: “Chiropractic Lite?” Federation of Straight Chiropractors & Organizations “Update”

The Harte of Chiropractic, a weekly e-zine for chiropractors (2003-present)

The Harte of Health, an e-zine for my practice members and the community (2008-present)

“Psychotropic Drugs and Shootings,” San Francisco Chronicle

The Harte of Chiropractic, a weekly e-zine for chiropractors

The Harte of Health, a weekly ezine for the Members of my practice and for the community                                 

PUBLIC SERVICE:

1996: Candidate for State Senate (California, District 3), Libertarian Party.

1996-1999: Team Doctor, Annual charity basketball game, Marin County Peace Officers Association vs. the 49er's.

May, 1999: Kids Day International

First Aid for foot races: Double Dipsea, Run for the Seals (for the Marine Mammal Center), Human Race, Marin County Fair Race

2005-2007: Member, Health Council of Marin (an advisory body to the Marin County Board of Supervisors)

Member, Board of Regents, Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic

2003- Present: Spearheaded efforts to end corruption, anti-chiropractic bias and malicious persecution of chiropractors and Chiropractic, by the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners

CHIROPRACTIC TECHNIQUES:

Directional Non-Force Technique

Upper Cervical Specific Technique

Torque Release Technique

Logan Basic Technique

Applied Kinesiology

Columbia Technique