Don’t let the patient dictate the care. Your job is to find subluxations and fix subluxations. Don’t just adjust how and where they tell you. Find it – accept it where you find it – fix it – and leave it alone.
Philosophy
The fallacy of patient control
Don’t fool yourself into thinking you can control a patient’s behavior. Honor their free will and empower them instead of trying to find a magic script that will create 100% compliance.
Handling patient rejection
No matter how much you try to educate patients, some of them just won’t get it. When they reject care they’re not rejecting you. When it happens – don’t let the negativity interfere with the care you give others.
Don’t judge patients for past choices
Meet them where they are.
What the patient really wants
Find out why the patient is really there. It’s not for pain relief – it’s to do something once the pain is gone.
Never trust a bald barber
Practice what you preach. To be a healthcare provider you should be healthy.
Tactics vs. Principles
Be flexible about tactics, but steadfast on principles.
Tell patients the truth about subluxation
Not telling them is negligent.
My issue with vendors
I got no beef with the products or services – it’s their message to us.
Success Habits?
Gurus will tell you that success lies in your daily routine.
Yes and no.
Yes, success lies in what you do, but most “gurus” would have you believe that you need to do THEIR prescription of successful habits.
Rise early. Mantras. Dream boards. Staring at yourself in the mirror. Etc.
While those can be beneficial – they are NOT the key to success.
Here’s my proof: There are successful chiropractors who do those things.
And there are successful chiropractors who DON’T do those things.
Adopting someone else’s habits is an OUTSIDE-IN approach.
Any self-respecting chiropractor knows that health comes from the inside-out. That’s how practice success happens as well. Trying to force an outside-in solution onto anything will yield limited results.
Choose your own habits or actions, then do them because you want to.
Not because someone is selling you on their superstition.