OT: poll question...

[Guest guest]

Colleagues:

.......Since there are such strong opinions we have so many bad examples

in our recent federal functionaries,

I'd like to ask for a simple poll specifying who represents a GOOD

leadership example of 'America' in the lifetime of any DC reading this post.

No politics, no argument, simply vote for your very best example; 1

person, 1 vote, 1 word. No drama, no commentary. How far will

gathering that information actually get? Prediction: not far.

I am concerned, given the difficulty we can't agree on what is bad, can

we ever hope to agree on what is good? Politically, I mean.

Lord knows we can't agree on anything else let alone 'what is

CHIROPRACTIC'....is there is or is there ain't 'subluxations'....

Do we or don't we 'treat'....does 'results based outcomes' and 'clinical

evidence' somehow disqualify the 'philosophy' part of our quaint

science, art and philosophy?

Still remaining unannointed with the Holy Oil of Chiropractic Communion

in spite of my best efforts, I hope to see the light some day, that my

ability to understand may somehow span the No-man's Land between

'Innate' and 'CPT codes'. Isn't THAT what really separates us as

chiropractors, rather than politics?

On this Memorial Day, I'd like to place flowers at the tomb of our

Unknown DCs who served their whole unrequited careers for the betterment

of suffering Mankind, without the advantages of instant vituperative

messaging and political strife on line. I'd like the Jerry Springer

College of Chiropractic Arts to offer courses on amiable resolution of

personal differences of opinion, with CE hours at reasonable fees. I'd

like to talk to my colleagues without worrying whether my asbestos short

liners would hold up should I not quite meet their particular notions of

how things should be.

As well sail into the unknown shores of tomorrow's legislation, I hope

to learn how to overlook whatever wrong-headed and idiotic political

nonsense our fellow DCs harbor, and join with them to advance

Chiropractic goals. This idea is foreign enough to our enemies they

merely appear to be united against us....all they actually have to do to

be effective, is to distract us enough that we abandon our understanding

of chiropractic; all they need to do is jiggle our cages now and then so

we remain ravenous to any that approach our petty personal head-space

for any reason; all they need to do is raise suspicion about those

members of our own house.

We can bicker about anything including politicos, who don't agree among

themselves with NORMAL ideas let alone our peculiar health ideas, or we

can focus on the Big Picture and move to our own agenda....

We learn from our past presidents: Roosevelt showed us it was a

life-long job; Truman demonstrated anyone could be president. " I Like

Ike' was example we didn't really NEED a president.

And for me, the older I get, the better Eisenhower looks. Won the

war. Overcame a gaggle of over revving short-sighted egotists in the

service of the Big Picture. Who knows how he'd be now.

Eisenhower. My vote.

J. Pedersen DC

Guide, Tomb of the Unknown Chiropractor