Dooley Noted: 4/12/2014
Someone bragged at the DNS seminar that he hasn’t taken a new patient in 25 years.
He stated he was helping to maintain the patients he was seeing and was helping them live healthy lives.
While that intention sounds great, I found it to be off track with my current practice objectives.
You’re treating the same population of people and no longer seeing new people.
How is that a GOOD thing?
Did anyone actually get any better?
I don’t wish to be a patient’s band-aid for the next few decades. I’m looking to help the patient create sustainable change and self-sufficiency.
There’s a world of people to catalyze helping themselves.
If I am helping you with injury, please know you won’t have to nurse that injury for life. If I made you think so, I would not be getting anything done.
Hold me accountable. Expect of me what I expect of you: dedication to oneself. You are more than an injury.
If your doctor gives you the same treatment for years, feel free to question what in the world was getting done – if anything at all.
As always, it’s your call.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley