UPFRONT | From the editor Wisdom of the ages The Alberta College and Association of Chiropractors (ACAC) is celebrating its centennial this year and I had the privilege to attend the Centennial Gala event held in Calgary last May. It was a great pleasure to meet some of the leaders and members of the chiropractic community in Alberta, all of whom have been very welcoming. I also got a chance to chat with two of the more senior members of the com-munity: Dr. Murray Bowman, 92 and retired, and Dr. Metro Kuruliak, who has been in practice for 60 years to date. They are two of the few chiropractors today who have lived through the many transformations the chiropractic profession and practice have undergone through the years. They both started their careers at a time when chiropractic was the subject of ridicule and negative propaganda, when the medical profession and other uninformed entities were calling chiropractors “quacks.” I can imagine it would have been easier for them to just give up and find another more ac-ceptable profession – but they didn’t. Instead, they both did everything they could to continously upgrade their knowledge and skills so they could provide their patients with the best outcome possible -outcomes that their medical doctors were not able to provide. When Bowman realized that the education he received at the time from Palmer College was not sufficient to sustain and grow his practice, he made a commitment to learn something new every year. He continued that com-mitment until he retired from practice. Even after 60 years in practice, Kuruliak still makes it a point to attend local, national and international conferences to keep abreast of the latest trends and techniques in practice that he can apply to his own patients. And that, really, is the advice these old-timers would give their younger counterparts. “Help your patients, first and foremost, and never stop learning.” Their knowledge, clinical skills and their commitment to the well-being of their patients were their defence against the detractors and the ignorant. The patients they helped became their advocates and advertising agents. This is the formula for their success in practice. That sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? July 2017 Volume 22, Number 5 EDITOR Mari-Len De Guzman [email protected] (289) 259-1408 PUBLISHER Christine Livingstone [email protected] (519) 429-5173 • (888) 599-2228 ext. 239 ACCOUNT COORDINATOR Shannon Drumm [email protected] (888) 599-2228 ext. 219 MEDIA DESIGNER Brooke Shaw CIRCULATION MANAGER Anita Madden GROUP PUBLISHER Martin McAnulty [email protected] COO Ted Markle [email protected] PRESIDENT & CEO Mike Fredericks Published and printed by Annex Business Media, 105 Donly Drive South, Simcoe, ON, Canada N3Y 4N5 Publication Mail Agreement #40065710 ISSN 1488-6952 CIRCULATION e-mail: [email protected] Tel: (416) 510-5189 Fax: (416) 510-5170 Mail: 80 Valleybrook Drive, Toronto, ON M3B 2S9 Canadian Chiropractor is published eight times a year: February, April, May, June, July/August, September, October and December. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada – 1 Year $24.00 (with GST $25.20, with HST/QST $27.12) (HST #867172652RT0001) USA – 1 Year $35.00 (US Funds) Occasionally, Canadian Chiropractor will mail information on behalf of industry-related groups whose products and services we believe may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive this information, please contact our circulation department in any of the four ways listed above. No part of the editorial content of this publication may be reprinted without the publisher’s written permission. ©2017 Annex Publishing & Printing Inc. All rights reserved. Opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the editor or the publisher. No liability is assumed for errors or omissions. All advertising is subject to the publisher’s approval. Such approval does not imply any endorsement of the products or services advertised. Publisher reserves the right to refuse advertising that does not meet the standards of the publication. MARI-LEN DE GUZMAN, Editor EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD @CanChiropractor Victoria Coleman, DC; Connie J. D’Astolfo, DC, Dip HA, PhD (cand); Pierre DesLauriers, DC; James P. Laws, DC, FRCCSS(C)(Hon); David Leprich, DC; Wanda Lee MacPhee, DC; Peter Moore, DC; Don Nixdorf, DC; Renae Rogers, DC; Greg Stewart, BPE, DC 6 Canadian Chiropractor July 2017 www.canadianchiropractor.ca
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