Herein, I am particularly focusing on information for medical students, information for chiropractors and information for physical therapists. Whichever of the health care professions you have entered - or are contemplating – whether it is a career in traditional (allopathic) medicine, a career in osteopathic medicine, a career in chiropractic or a career in physical therapy, that medical training, chiropractic training, physical therapy training - or an allied discipline – all of it will remarkably change during your professional lifetime. The social forces today are extraordinary, powerful and often in conflict.

 So I offer to you that one of your wisest, early health care career decisions will be to peruse the entire field and understand fundamentals of their function. If you do not do so on your own, then it is likely that your mindset will be indoctrinated only from within the walls of your formal training, which is the usual situation, and from there you will lose considerably when you might otherwise be a valuable agent in the changes that are happening.

While in an ideal world it would be sufficient and good to be fully educated from within, in the real world every profession’s pronouncements are obviously expressions of the minds of people with their own self-serving attitudes and prejudices who, too often are primarily concerned with being substantiated and protected. (That certainly was what I was exposed to.)  The only person ultimately responsible for your life is you. Your critical decisions need to be yours. Because yours will be the harvest.   

The success of your professional work, how you will view yourself all too soon in reflective time – looking back on your decisions - will depend in many ways on what you decide now about developing a balanced attitude from which to better  develop a reasoned preparation for your entering one of the careers in health care. The privilege to relieve the anguish of another human being is among the highest of aspirations. To enter a discipline dedicate to pain relief is especially so. It is a natural place for the expression of idealism and desire to serve. It can be the foundation for a most satisfying life.

There is a reality to contend with: In the predominant approach to treating pain caused by common, non-life threatening conditions, most of the health care field is involved in a monumental confusion. Helping to resolve it has been the central theme of my professional career. I hope you will spend time here. Please read the comments and reviews of others, and dip into some of the fundamentals scrolling this home page. I hope you will appreciate what is here concerns issues that you must become aware of. Please read Release From Pain. The full story is there. 

 Be well. Do well. Be a beacon in your profession, and good fortune.

 “I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know; The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”

                                                                                    Dr. Albert Schweitzer