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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitch Dudek

George McAndrews, waged legal war on behalf of chiropractors, forever changing the profession, dead at 87

George McAndrews (Provided)

George McAndrews never forgot how his father, a chiropractor, was brought to tears by the scorn and ridicule lobbed on him and others in the field by medical doctors.

“We as children felt it, we knew he was being ridiculed,” recalled Mr. McAndrews’ brother, Tom, of their upbringing in an Iowa town along the Mississippi River. “Medical doctors would tell their patients, ‘Don’t go near chiropractors, they’re quacks.’ And we’d hear that at school from our friends.”

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