Louisa Chiropractic Center officially opened its doors over 20 years ago, on May 20, 1996. The guiding principles have remained the same from day one:
- Every patient deserves the best possible care, regardless of insurance or financial status.
- Patients are to be scheduled based on their individual needs, not by some formula or the number of treatments allowed by their insurance companies.
- The doctor needs to listen to the patient, just as the patient needs to follow the doctor’s instructions.
- An overflowing waiting room is less an indication of how good the doctor is, but how little the doctor respects their patients’ time.
- Patients (with appointments) shouldn’t have to wait for extended periods in their doctors’ offices.
- No doctor can fix or treat everything. Referrals to other physicians or healthcare practitioners are made with the patient’s best interests in mind.
- Diagnostic measures are to be used intelligently. Expensive tests are not necessarily useful tests. Diagnostics conducted strictly for the doctor’s own academic interests should be done at the doctor’s expense.
- Mutual respect between a doctor and patient is at least as important as it is in any other human relationship.
- Caring about and for a patient should yield the same result.
- A sense of humor and a good attitude is the best way to get through anything life throws at you!