You won’t go wrong if you are exceeding the goals and expectations your patients have for their care. the time, they were very open. We spoke about chiropractic and how chiropractic can help especially in acute situations.” Laurenti finds he is in his element when he is providing assistance to others – whether it’s helping patients improve their health or just simply extending a helping hand to those in need of assistance. Perhaps it’s why he found his first career as an x-ray technologist lacking, and wanted to do more than diagnostic testing on patients. Being an x-ray technician has its merits, Laurenti notes, but he wanted to do more for the patients and be more involved in their continuing health care. “I wanted a more hands-on approach. I wanted to be in-volved much more in the lives of patients and help them get better. I decided on chiropractic because I was very impressed with (chiropractors) attitude toward health care. And it’s not only talking about the physical condition… health is more than just physical condition. It’s their lifestyle, their diet, their stress level. There’s a number of different things we have to deal with as chiropractors, and that’s what really attracted me to it,” Laurenti says. So, what inspires Laurenti to do the things he does? “I think most chiropractors, including myself, will let you know that what inspires us in our practice is the look of grat-itude on patients’ faces when they see the benefits of our care. It’s what inspires me to continue to practice after over 23 years of adjusting patients.” Laurenti calls it a “great honour” to be named as one of Canada’s most inspiring chiropractors, and finds it even more humbling to learn that his 23-year-old son, Adam, was the one who nominated him for the Inspire Award. “In my life, I have tried to be the best father, doctor, hus-band and servant that I could be,” he says. And his biggest aspiration: Be able to bring chiropractic to poor communities. “The channel in which my life is flowing is leading me to aspire to do a chiropractic mission in a third-world country to treat as many individuals as possible. I have seen the ben-efits and miracles that many chiropractors are doing today with impoverished people, and when the time is right, I surely will be joining them.” chiropractic, the chiropractor was being drawn to yet another opportunity to be of service to his community. Soon after that, Laurenti applied and was successful in becoming a member of Espanola’s firefighting team. His desire to educate the community about the benefits of chiropractic opened up many opportunities for Laurenti, both to grow his practice and raise the level of awareness about chiropractic. It also opened up doors for dialogue and mutual cooperation with medical physicians. Laurenti spearheaded the emergency on-call program for chiropractors through the Espanola Regional Hospital – an initiative that allows emergency room physicians to refer pa-tients to chiropractors in the area. Laurenti admits the on-call program has not been as suc-cessful as he hoped it would be (chiropractors would still occasionally get referrals from the hospital ER, but they weren’t as many as he had initially hoped for), but it was fruitful in other ways. “I wanted to open up the dialogue between chiropractic and the medical physicians,” Laurenti says. “When I met with the physicians and the executive director (of the hospital) at www.canadianchiropractor.ca Service above self Dr. Gavin Morphet of Ancaster, has been a member of the Rotary Club of Ancaster for more than 10 years, and has February 2015 Canadian Chiropractor 25
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