The educated brain unlike the innate intelligence learns by trial and error. Therefore we must allow people the opportunity and freedom to learn by failure when it comes to issues of health or else they will never learn.
OK,lets suppose they never learn, suppose they simply do with us as they do with Medicine, they do as they are told.....get spine checked each week for life ? Though not optimal, is that bad/undesireable??
Joe D, when people "do as they're told" they step into the arena of faith because they either believe in you or in chiropractic. People even say: "I believe in chiropractic, I go to the chiropractor, he cured me". The problem with that, is that people usually don't share their faith because they think it's a personal thing. So, they keep it to themselves most of the time. When we tell the story over and over and over and over again in as many ways as possible (and you've got to be able to do that!), then sometimes the story finds its way into a "crack" in their consciousness and the "light of understanding" gets in. At that moment, they "get it" and cannot help from sharing in a way that shows they understand and they refer because they can explain. To believe is not "bad/undesirable", it simply is. Understanding is in the realm of logic and reason. Faith is in the realm of belief.
Chiropractic philosophy is deductive based on 33 logical principles and requires reasoning. It's the most difficult choice because it takes efforts. "There were two roads on my path and I chose the one less travelled and it made all the difference in the world."
Claude, So glad you agree, some of all of our patients, probably less than 50%, understand and come for all the right resons. That means that the other 50% come out of pure "faith". Now I'm not saying that we give-up on them, we still work to educate them and I might add that they refer not because they understand, but rather becouse it is a rule of my fee system to do so, thus if they want to continue as a patient they need to refer others. My concern is not for you nor I and those like us, but rather for the newer practitioner who often infers from our stand on education that we have practices of 80 or 90% educated patients. When they achieve a 30% lvel in their young practices they become frustrated and think that they will never "make it". Therefore, I ask again, is it really soooo bad that some patients come based on(your word) "faith" or is it simply more important that they "come each week" ??
OK,lets suppose they never learn, suppose they simply do with us as they do with Medicine, they do as they are told.....get spine checked each week for life ? Though not optimal, is that bad/undesireable??
ReplyDeleteJoe D, when people "do as they're told" they step into the arena of faith because they either believe in you or in chiropractic. People even say: "I believe in chiropractic, I go to the chiropractor, he cured me".
ReplyDeleteThe problem with that, is that people usually don't share their faith because they think it's a personal thing. So, they keep it to themselves most of the time.
When we tell the story over and over and over and over again in as many ways as possible (and you've got to be able to do that!), then sometimes the story finds its way into a "crack" in their consciousness and the "light of understanding" gets in.
At that moment, they "get it" and cannot help from sharing in a way that shows they understand and they refer because they can explain.
To believe is not "bad/undesirable", it simply is. Understanding is in the realm of logic and reason. Faith is in the realm of belief.
Chiropractic philosophy is deductive based on 33 logical principles and requires reasoning. It's the most difficult choice because it takes efforts.
"There were two roads on my path and I chose the one less travelled and it made all the difference in the world."
Claude,
ReplyDeleteSo glad you agree, some of all of our patients, probably less than 50%, understand and come for all the right resons. That means that the other 50% come out of pure "faith". Now I'm not saying that we give-up on them, we still work to educate them and I might add that they refer not because they understand, but rather becouse it is a rule of my fee system to do so, thus if they want to continue as a patient they need to refer others. My concern is not for you nor I and those like us, but rather for the newer practitioner who often infers from our stand on education that we have practices of 80 or 90% educated patients. When they achieve a 30% lvel in their young practices they become frustrated and think that they will never "make it". Therefore, I ask again, is it really soooo bad that some patients come based on(your word) "faith" or is it simply more important that they "come each week" ??