Consider your heritage next time you feel hard done by.
Just as heat tempers steel and makes it tougher so does adversity make a stronger more resolute chiropractor.
You may face challenges in your quest to realize your vision of clinical excellence and practice success along with higher aspirations like maybe the worldwide leadership of health care in the chiropractic model.
You may feel overwhelmed, frustrated or despondent as you deal with the economics of the 21st century health care crisis. The barriers to entry into chiropractic that have been erected by government and other vested interests is nothing short of criminal.
You may feel like you are butting your head against the wall in an attempt to get people to understand your message of health and healing.
Yet, these challenges pale into insignificance compared to those that were encountered by our forefathers and mothers.
Consider the hundreds of chiropractors who went to jail rather than abandon their goals and ethical values.
One of the first chiropractors to be jailed for practicing medicine without a license was the discoverer, D.D. Palmer. A 1906 newspaper article (1) relates an interview with D.D. at the Scott County Jail, where he was confined in a cell 2.5 X 3 metres.
DD was offered an alternative to paying the fine but D.D. chose jail, stating, “After I went to jail, several parties phoned to my home and others called offering to lend me money with which to pay my fine. I am not in a cell for lack of princiPAL but for an abundance of princiPLE.”
He held resolute to his commitment to himself to bring this fantastic discovery, chiropractic to the world.
The question to us all at this time is do we hold resolutely to our principles or do we acquiesce to the forces that challenge us?
