Sunday, October 20, 2013 will mark the 100th year anniversary of the death of DD Palmer. This record of the memorial service to honor DD’s passing came from Peter H. Morgan, DC MEMORIAL SERVICE In Respect to Dr. D. D. Palmer, Discoverer of Chiropractic, October 23, 1913, at The P.S.C. In respect to D. D. Palmer, discoverer of Chiropractic, who died at Los Angeles, Monday morning, October 20th (1913), memorial services were held at The Palmer School of Chiropractic, Chiropractic…
Chiropractic, like most of the health care professions, is populated by a group of people who are passionate about providing their services and skills of health care upon their practice members. They are there to serve people in their business and do the very best they physically can. Unfortunately, they often pay little attention to the structure or the operation of their business outside of the clinical delivery. This leads to practices being unsustainable in the long run. Most chiropractors…
The much used quote of Ghandi’s “Be the change that you want to see in the world” is very relevant when it comes to considering the challenge of moving your practice members into the “Best Customer” category that we spoke of last week. The fact is that most practices spend most of their time, money and resources on getting new people and rolling out the ‘red carpet’ for them in the initial stages of their care only to lose the…
Often in practice we are faced with making decisions around the application of our technique that have us doing more rather than less and less when we should do more. How do you know when you have done just enough? BJ Palmer DC, pioneer and developer of Chiropractic is quoted as saying , “The fundamental of this clinic is to see how little we can do, at how few places, how rarely, and how quickly it can be done, to…
There are many obstacles that stand in your way of being able to provide your chiropractic service at an optimal level to your community. Sometimes that task seems so huge that it even seems fruitless to start. The medical machine is so pervasive and it has spread its tentacles into every corner of people’s minds. It is in the battle for people’s minds that success or failure is determined. It’s a big job and yet it can be done and…
It has been said that some people are in our life for a reason, some for a season and some for a lifetime. Whether it is true or not it can be a useful way of looking at life and practice. Let’s consider each of these groups for a minute. REASON… How often do you get all bent out of shape because a person, situation or event has occurred when you think it “shouldn’t” be the way it is –…
When you hold a position of transparency, where there are no hidden agendas, people trust you. When you tell the truth people trust you. When you are open and authentic you invite trust. As Ghandi is quoted as saying, “To believe in something and not live it is dishonest”. If people know that what they see is what they get and they can always rely on your honest opinion whether positive or negative they will entrust themselves and their families…
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)….
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn How often do you fail to inform a person on the relationship between their spine, nerve system and health? How often do you not recommend optimum frequency of care for a person? How often do you not recommend appropriate care beyond symptoms for your people? How often do you not take the time to explain to…
Following on from last week’s post it may be useful to consider the process of toughening up. As caring, sharing healers chiropractors have a preference, in the main to be supportive and nurturing. These qualities are what set chiropractors up for success in their clinical field and get great results for their practice members. There are times, however when this style is counter-productive and it is appropriate to adopt a different style. Quantum physics states that for every positron there…
With an increase in the attacks on chiropractic globally we are being tested as individuals and as a profession. The money that drives the medical industry is bringing its power to bear on chiropractic as a major competitor for market share. Recently we have seen incessant attacks on the ethics and integrity of chiropractic and of chiropractors. These are personality attacks, which are the lowest form of human intellect. There is little substantiative data behind these campaigns as far as…
This week we learned of Angelina Jolie’s bizarre decision to have both of her breasts surgically removed even though she has no breast cancer, just as a measure of prevention. I guess that makes sense, if she has no breasts she cant ‘get’ breast cancer. The medical viewpoint is that because she carries the BRCA1 gene then she has an 87% chance of getting breast cancer therefore if they remove the breasts they have prevented the disease – chalk another…
