Yours, mine and hours

[Guest guest]

Colleagues,

As one with minimal social skills and even less time to waste in the

Jaws of Hell Portland traffic, or even attempting to maintain a

semblance of alertness during some endlessly droning seminar, I agree

with many of the comments listed.

I note my dwindling acquaintance of other DCs around the state, even

those who were members of my own graduating pod, as we all march ever

closer to that great Adjustment Table in the Sky.

The annoyance and inconvenience and expense and aggravation I felt

having to attend such events through the 70s, the 80s, and into the

90s, have been replaced with a more leisurely approach to adding to my

clinical skills.

There are a lot of fellow DCs I wish I'd spent more time getting to

know, learning from, and gaining a bit more perspective on their part

of the Chiropractic Universe.

The nifty little flat-screen fiber optic whirling hard drive nest we

all have labored mightily to construct for ourselves, too easily

mutates into little other than a mud termite mound keeping the rain off

our necks while confining and constraining our capacity to grow

personally and expand our Vision as we are trapped in the economic

warrens we dig for ourselves.

These individual cribs we so dutifully service by habit, after the

maddening all-consuming sacrifice to survive school and setting up

practice, too easily separates us from other DCs, who do things

differently, "wrongly"....who don't understand 'true

Chiropractic'....yet we are all creatures of the same veldt under the

same Dark Sky...

The electronic campfire around which we huddle, reveals the dwindling

fire in our own hearts as we rail against the Board, the insurance

cartel, the slights and travails of other practitioners, those numerous

other creatures of the jungle that are Not Friendly. And most

assuredly, we will continue as a species to eat our own young and those

we perceived as weak or so misguided, or so disfigured by their

erroneous convictions, or who are~ most damning~"like US"......why

would we care to meet if there's a way out of doing such....

All we have, that really support us in our cause, is other

chiropractors. Friends, family, patients, sure, but their support is

not the same. And you know how notoriously unreliable 'other DCs' are

about anything....

And we're so busy bickering between ourselves we do lose the Big

Picture, our Vision, our Dedication, our own health and clarity of mind

and spirit.

And like too many of you, I have a hard time allotting precious time

with DCs like ME too.

J. Pedersen DC