Do we depend upon practice members having an understanding of the ADIO philosophy so that they can make intelligent decisions with regard to personal issues like vaccination, fluoride, and the dangers of drugs and surgery. Or do we give that information to them and become known as medical bashers and, more important, have the public mistakenly assume that chiropractic is an alternative to medicine? If we choose the former, how do we know they truly have an ADIO world and life viewpoint?
By the way, I am looking for feedback from this question.
Do we depend on practice members to choose anything? Really?
Is it not their innate right to choose whatever they want for themselves and their families? The same way that it is our innate right to choose the way we wish to BE? And does it really matter whether our practice members understand the ADIO viewpoint or not? Is it asking to know outcome assessments of the results of our work?
Is it important for US to know whether THEY will make intelligent choices regarding these issues or not?
All that is required of us, is to BE congruent, by telling the story over and over and over and over again. It is sufficient unto itself. It is not our job to care about the outcome of our sharing with the world. OURS is to LOVE by dancing OUR dance all the way to the end. There’s no greater dance in the universe. The late Joe Flesia called it the “DANCE OF MORE”. Wanna dance anyone?
Medical bashing will get us nowhere. It will only make us appear less credible. We just need to keep making distinctions so that somehow, someway, an internal shift in the thought process of our people will take place. We’re not really in control of that happening. How did we get to where we are? It took time. Like Claude said, we need to keep telling the story. You never know when something is gonna’ click. During that process, we need to keep centered on our objective, with the understanding that each individual’s paradigm will shift when the time is right for them. I personally, do not “depend” upon them understanding the ADIO philosophy. THAT’s up to them!
After reading this thought/question I happened to glance to the right and saw Joe’s “Pt Education and Books” and the thought immediately came to me that people can’t live what they don’t own and can’t own what they don’t know. One of the most valuable pieces of pt education for people to understand the ADIO philosophy is “Enhance Your Life Experience”. Simply giving people answers to their questions only elicits more questions of the same nature, like the proverb says: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” I believe we need to be giving people the “tools” they need to come up with the answers they seek. The quality of the questions our PMs ask us will let us know if they truly understand the ADIO philosophy.
And yeah, a little medic bashing feels good too! 😉 (j/k)
I still believe that offering information to practice members is neither medical bashing or disrespecting innate. Until I learned about subluxations I did not know to get adjusted. Information is beneficial when not presented as dogma.
James, perhaps this article will be helpful https://chiropracticoutsidethebox.com/1988/04/01/chiropractic-i…n-prescriptive/ I hope I did that right. If not the article is called Chiropractic is not Prescriptive.
Joe, for whatever reason that link didn’t work. All one has to do is copy and paste “Chiropractic is non-prescriptive” to the search in the upper right side of this page under your picture and hit “go” and that will take you directly to your article.