sound sincere and caring. He said that he learned that bonding first is the most important. Dr. Faye talked about bonds and the importance of relationships in her ini-tial experiences outside of school: “Families would come in to see her and say, [“Dr. S! Oh, look, I lost my tooth.” and she’d go, “How was your vaca-tion?”] and I was like, “Okay, she’s not their dentist. Why does she care if the kid lost its tooth? And how did she know they went on vacation at Disney-land?” She realized that the chiroprac-tor became part of the family’s life and she wanted to be a part of that. Dr. Dan stressed that school did not teach him how to be a manager: “The other things that you don’t learn, like managing people, hiring people, firing people, dealing with a team…I was so nervous. I didn’t know what to look for, and who to look for, and just everything. Then the thought of paying for some-body who wasn’t going to do a good job. It’s almost like you are super emotional in the beginning, and as you do it, you numb yourself a little bit. Your deci-sion-making skills get better and better as the anxiety of making wrong decisions goes away through experiential, hiring and firing, and the experiences with that have moulded the business as much as chiropractic school ever did.” Dr. Gail candidly explained her expe-rience: “You know, you’re trained to be a chiropractor...but not trained to be a businessperson. They teach you how to write a business plan, which no one, I don’t think, ever grades or looks at. They tell you some ideal statistics, like your overhead should not exceed what-ever percentage. That’s pretty much the extent of it. There’s no business training. I remember coming out and thinking: ‘Payroll. You just pay somebody.’ I didn’t realize you need a payroll company, or you have to do payroll taxes.” This dissertation was 200 pages. My goal in my column was to give you a snapshot of how Dr. Sampair’s work was not only innovative but extremely creative. He concluded that further re-search was recommended in: chiroprac-tic partnerships, social identity creation, negative messaging within chiropractic colleges concerning business, training students in the psychological aspects of a college-to-career transition during chiropractic college, and supporting novices in the early stage of their col-lege-to-career transition while still in chiropractic college. I will leave you with an email I re-ceived from Dr. Sampair himself: I’m honoured to know about the summary you’re writing. That’s exciting for me to know because my main audiences were chiropractic students and new graduates, and I believe that your summary will bring the interviewee’s wisdom to so many more people now. And, if there’s any way it can help chiropractic college administrators to better understand the college-to-career tran-sition, then that would be phenomenal. Let us hope that the schools are lis-tening so that Dr. Sampair’s hope be-comes a reality. www.Cndoctor.ca CND_Contemporary Acupuncture_MarApe21_CSA.indd 1 March/April 2021 Chiropractic and Naturopathic Doctor 15 2021-03-05 3:48 PM
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