Another day another post. Actually two. I posted an index to assist in finding the articles on such things as valuations, contracts, associates, and agreements of purchase and sale. Good sailing.

Now I am moving in a different direction. I had sort of promised myself that one day I would put into writing all of the people who I have come into contact with in the health care professions starting back in 1976. Not that it matters to anyone in general, but I am going to try and do this in chronological order. This should keep me blogging for a few weeks or months. So here goes:

1.

My first contact with the chiropractic profession came when I returned to Toronto from attending law school at the University of Western Ontario. I had spent three years complaining of an ear ache and was astutely diagnosed as it being a matter of "tension" and being prescribed valium. Nice way to keep a person with ADDDDDDD (not yet a known problem) smiling through law school. A friend from back in early school was enrolled at chiropractic college and as an intern was rubbing his hands in glee when we decided that I should seek a proper diagnosis and treatment at his hands. The person in question was Allan Gotlib, who is now Editor in Chief of the Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association.

I attended for the assessment which as I remember it was termed a "subluxation". I had been x-rayed and after a consultation it was determined that an upper cervical adjustment was what was needed. Being anxious for the treatment but not exactly co-operative, soon to be Dr. Gotlib called upon Dr. Bob Kilgannon to assist in the treatment. It would work like a charm and a pain that I had suffered with for years was gone within days as I remember it. I still need treatment from time to time -- but that will be a story for a future time. Needless to say, I remember that first treatment as if it happened yesterday. Too bad it hadn't happened decades earlier.

More about that first visit and subsequent visits and more persons tomorrow and thereafter.