To what degree have you bought into the fear and coercion that is being perpetrated upon you as a chiropractor by a profit driven medical establishment? The sickness cartel rubs their hands with glee at the news of more chronically sick children and more degenerative diseases. More drugs mean more disease, more morbidity, more mortality and all of that means more business.
The drug industry appears to have a three-step marketing plan:
1.Get them when they’re young (preferably before birth).
2.For every human condition there is a drug.
3.Don’t worry about the side effects, we have drugs for them.
The need for doctors of chiropractic to tell the world about a better way to life and health than a life of drugs for every problem has never been greater. There is no other health care profession to do it. We are the ones with the numbers, the information, and the philosophical and financial power to do it and yet there are so few chiropractors that are willing to take a stand.
The words of Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) come to mind when reflecting on this issue. “Let us think of the great invisible ship that carries our human destinies upon eternity. Like the vessels of our confined oceans, she has her sails and her ballast. The fear that she may pitch or roll on leaving the roadstead is no reason for increasing the weight of the ballast by stowing the fair white sails in the depths of the hold. They were not woven to moulder side by side with cobblestones in the dark. Ballast exists everywhere; all the pebbles of the harbour, all the sand of the beach, will serve for that. But sails are rare and precious things; their place is not in the murk of the well, but amid the light of the tall masts, where they will collect the winds of space.”
There are those in our profession who say that we should not be addressing health at all, that chiropractic is of no benefit to health and we should focus on back pain. To them there is a limited niche available to ply their talents within chiropractic where they can eek out an existence. Then there are some who will always be ballast. Ballast is needed and maybe the basic nature of ballast can never be changed.
But there are many fine doctors in our profession rotting away in the dark. Caring people who are aware of the damage being done to their fellow human beings but are stuck in the ‘comfort zone’. They have not committed to sticking their heads above deck and think it’s safer to not rock the boat.
This problem will not go away, it is getting worse and it IS a chiropractic issue.
The question is… will you be a part of the problem by not speaking out or a part of the solution by showing the fabric of your sails?
