everywhere signs.

I saw this sign at the dermatologist's office. Wow.

I realize that with insurance reimbursements dropping that doctors need to see more people in order to make the same amount of money (they do anyway, we are still seeing only the people we want to see), but this is grade-A malpractice. How the hell do you (the patient) know what is important or not important each time you go to the doctor? Is that a mole or a carcinoma? Is Timmy's cough nothing to worry about or TB? Are you putting on a couple pounds or is that a giant sebaceous cyst about to burst on your dinner guests? You don't know! You aren't the doctor so why in the hell shouldn't you be asking these questions.

But the doctor doesn't have time to answer all my questions!

Then find one who does! Jeez, get some respect for yourself and your health. Find one who hasn't built his practice around a failed paradigm and can make time to speak with you rather than treat you like you are a waste of time.

But you see people quickly, how is this any different?

Not quickly, we see people the quickest. Chiropractic lends itself to consistent, rapid visits. This lets us stay up to date with your health concerns. How? Because we see you more often you don't have to ask us a bunch of questions, we answer them as we go. If something more important pops up, then we do our job as doctors, find the answer then follow-up with you at a scheduled time. It's a beautiful thing.

This is the problem with the wait-until-it breaks-then-try-to-fix-it or if-I'm-not-in-pain-then-I'm-healthy paradigms. Most of them cannot/do not operate at anything resembling efficiency, but in this economic environment they are being forced to. How do they feel about it? How is it affecting the business of health care? Who knows, they aren't the one paying the price (pun intended).

You are.

braggadocio

You get healthier when you come to Fink Chiropractic Centers.

Whether you like it or not, whether you care or not, you get healthier. You don't have a choice. Why? Because your state of health is the product of your knowledge of health. Think of it this way, if you really understood what was in soda I guarantee you wouldn't drink it or give it to your kids, even to shut them up. If you knew how that sugary b.s. was pounding your pancreas, depressing your immune system, and throwing rocks through your windows you wouldn't even think about eating it, no matter how good it tastes. The problem is that so many people make so much money off you being fat, sick, depressed, and addicted that they can fund ads for hours and hours. These ads mislead, misquote, and confuse you as to what is healthy and what is not. Better yet, they make their product seem "not that bad". Meanwhile your gut and spine are rotting while you cover up the symptom of back pain with pain killers.

Not here though, nope.

In our office, you get an education, and an adjustment. Nothing formal, no classroom style stuff, but every single time we see you we explain a different facet of human health. Because we usually will see you more often than medical check-ups we can build on your education. Naturally, you begin to make healthier decisions.

Because, if you don't, I ask you why.

If your medical doctor gives you recommendations and you don't do them, what happens? Doesn't much matter does it? You won't be seeing him again for months. You are much more likely to follow my recommendations because I'll be seeing you again on a shorter time table. This creates accountability, which I know is the second biggest problem with the current medical paradigm. No one takes any accountability for your health, and no one holds your ass accountable for your decisions.

No one, that is, except us.

You cannot argue with our methods or our results. 1000 spines a month, 6 years and I can count on one hand the number of people we couldn't "fix".

Bragging? Hell yes I am.

Busy.

People ask me when/if I ever get to sleep. I guess they wonder what life is like running a wildly successful chiropractic office, getting a book published, speaking several times a month to businesses about health topics, burning dinner, etc. so I have included several snapshots of this past month.

1) The good old days.

My son loves to watch videos of himself. That's right, my 20 month-old son likes to watch our homemade videos of himself when he was just a couple weeks old. Don't ask, every time I talk about it I feel ancient. In this shot you can see one of the videos on the TV as I chase my tiny man through the room. Also pictured are the 3 year old toys that James is tall enough to play with. Can you feel me beaming?

2) Staff Meeting

One of our staff meetings at the office. We meet for a hour once a week to make sure everything is running smoothly, iron-out kinks in office flow, figure out why we left a patient in the re-exam room for 90 minutes, etc. As you can see, dancing is highly encouraged at the meeting, that is Dr. Mawer rocking a sweet robato in the background.


3) Bribed.

This is Jerry, he won the Fink Chiropractic Center pick' em league for 2008-2009. We gave him a trophy. We give out lots of trophies. Why? Are you kidding? Who doesn't want a trophy?!