Are chiropractors Primary Care doctors?
Actually, chiropractic doctors are PRIMARY PORTAL OF ENTRY doctors and cannot be accurately classified as primary care by definition. However, most persons writing legislation and insurance use the terms interchangably and do not know the difference, therefore for THEIR defininition we are primary care doctors. This means that patients can come to us directly for care, without being referred by any other physician. The true reason we cannot fall into the classification of primary care is that the definition includes care for life threatening situations.
