I am a passionate person, and as a doctor of chiropractic… even more so.

As a young doctor, I can recall getting really frustrated when someone I could help, sat in a chair right in front of me and decided to take a drug instead.  I took it personally, and was very upset that they didn’t value their health as much as I did.

Ok, I really didn’t value THEIR health.  I was imposing my set of values on them. It was ego, and the desire to put to use the skills I had been recently unleashed to use.

We live in a world, or I should say country that seems to live (and die) by the motto; “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”  And to be very honest, I was one of those people too.

Even as I entered chiropractic school with my degree in Exercise Physiology, I was all about helping (fixing) people.  So after more than twenty years in the healthcare field I don’t even recognize the values and philosophical stances of the Old Me.

 At this point in my journey, I have a few pet peeves, which I feel I must explain. 

1)  Even though there are some chiropractors who use the term in their offices.  Again I was once one of them.  I detest the term “treatment” when some attempt to apply it to the chiropractic adjustment.  When they use it I realize it is a sign that I need to educate them further on the difference between treatment and adjustment. They are very different things.

2) When people come to me wanting me to fix them, it is also an opportunity to let them know what a powerful being they are and that, with my help THEY will fix themselves. They have just lost something and most of them time, I can help them get it back.

3)  I don’t think chiropractic is the only answer to health.  That being said, if twins live the same lifestyle and have the same genetics, if one is under regular chiropractic care they will HANDS DOWN be the more healthy. There is proof of this.

4)  There IS a time and a place for the medical system.  I believe we have the very best emergency system and crisis care model on the planet.  But when we apply that model to healthy people… we will have more in the crisis line.

I hope this sheds a bit of light on my thought processes and approach to health. 

Please don’t hesitate to question or challenge these views, I am more than willing to discuss them with anyone.  Hopefully we will all gain from the interaction.

Yours in Wellness

Dr Bill