STUDENT ARTICLES
The Opioid Outbreak
On December 8, 2016, CNN posted an article with information that not many in our profession were surprised to see. The Opioid epidemic in the US is getting worse, not better. In 2015, the number of deaths involving opioids skyrocketed. This growing epidemic is...
He Wants to Be a Chiropractor
He says he wants to be a chiropractor. When I was ten, I wanted to be a race car driver. His friends want to create video games, become major league baseball players and YouTubers. (Is this really a profession?) In the wake of the Katie May autopsy report,...
How Hungry Are You?
Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to sit in a room with 7,000 other people and learn from Tony Robbins. This has been a bucket list item for me for a long time. I have been listening to Tony for as long as I can remember. My mother would listen to his cassette...
What is your story?
Recently, a friend recommended that I read The Storyteller’s Secret by Carmine Gallo, partially because of my fondness for TED talks. The book explains how storytelling, and its power to build emotional connections, have become increasingly valued in business today....
ChiroHealthUSA Announces Recipient of the Foxworth Family Scholarship
It is hard to believe that a year ago we announced ChiroHealthUSA’s Foxworth Family Scholarship in honor of my parents, Drs. Betty Pace Mathews and Charles Vernon Mathews. The scholarship awards one chiropractic student $10,000 toward their education and makes a...
The Beginning of the End
Recently, Gage, a former employee of mine and current chiropractic student, had his white coat ceremony. It brought to mind the feelings I had when I first stepped in to intern clinic some 30 years ago. It is exciting, frustrating, overwhelming, and sad at the same...
Begin with the End in Mind
Whether you just completed your first trimester or your last, you have probably experienced that feeling of being a hamster on a wheel: class, quiz, study, sleep… over and over again. Throughout chiropractic school, and even in your career as a Doctor of Chiropractic,...
Be Simple. Be Direct. Be Clear.
It won’t be long. Soon your diploma will be matted and framed, and your license will arrive in the mail. You will begin focusing on the best ways to attract new patients to your practice. It won’t take long for you to figure out that getting patients through the door...
Whose Rules Will You Follow?
Like most of you, I became a chiropractor to help people. I knew that I’d also be the owner of a small business, but I didn’t really consider what being an entrepreneur would entail. Even if I had, I surely could not have predicted how complicated and highly regulated...
There Is Nothing Permanent Except Change
It may not seem like it, but even during the still silence of winter when dusk seems to come upon us before we know it, our days are actually getting longer. Slowly, quietly, nature is renewing itself in a behind-the-scenes process that will ultimately result in a...
Practicing Under a Microscope
If you are keeping up with chiropractic news, you already know that chiropractic offices are being audited like never before. The most obvious reason is financial. Recoupments and fines can run into big money. The government, in particular, is trying to find cash...
What’s new in your new year?
With the beginning of the year comes the feeling of having a fresh slate; a new start. It can and should be a time for new beginnings. So how do you stay focused on the road ahead while still balancing everything that life is throwing at you? Usually people do not...
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Why is the Discount Challenge prize amount $15,024? Because that is the average “per-occurrence” fine for Medicare inducements. That’s not $15,024 per patient, that’s not per provider, that’s PER VISIT. Stinks, doesn’t it? To us, the prize amount is worth the investment if we can help our profession better understand proper discounting.