Reggie Gold Original Chiropractic Lay Lecture – Part 1

Want to know how the legends of our time used to give Chiropractic Lay Lectures?  Grab a pencil, paper and sit back and learn how to communicate more effectively with your patients.

 

Here are some of the Best Quotes from Reggie Gold:

 

“If you are not out to change the world, everything else is just ‘Mickey Mouse’ “

“It’s not normal to be average.”

“Drugs don’t have side effects. It’s that the effects of drugs are unpredictable.”

“You build a practice by educating patients. If you don’t like talking to people, get out of Chiropractic and be a cat burglar.”

“Some people’s minds are like the pupil of the eye. The more light that shines in, the more they close.”

On the subject of changing to a family maintenance practice. “If you want to make the conversion, make the commitment.”

“We got into Chiropractic to change the world. Instead we have allowed the world to change us.”

“A Chiropractic Adjustment always brings about positive changes. The mistake comes when we pretend to know what those changes will be.”

“If medical doctors want to get rid of Chiropractic, all they have to do is get sick people well.”

“If ragweed pollen caused hay fever we would all have hay fever.”

“No doctor anywhere ever cured anybody or anything.”

“Every man, woman, and child, regardless of what disease he or she has or doesn’t have, needs a good nerve supply. Without it you haven’t a hope in the world of staying healthy.”

“Your body has 25 – 30 quadrillion cells.”

“In order to heal, the body needs no help, just no interference.”

“Most people think the brain is just a blob in the head, well it’s not. It really is a blob on a stick.”

“If Chiropractic is nothing more than another treatment of disease then it is medicine.”



“Chiropractic is different not because of what we think but because of how we think.”

“Science is inadequate in studying life.”



“If you were the only Chiropractor left, would Chiropractic survive?”



“It’s your principle that keeps you from being accepted by medicine, not your education.”

“Under every circumstance you are better off with a good nerve supply.”



“Chiropractic does not need a philosophy. It is a philosophy.”

On the Chiropractic objective, “If you start a trip without knowing where you are going, how do you know when you have arrived.”

“If the Chiropractic philosophy is vitalistic, where do you come off with a technique that is mechanistic?”

“If Chiropractors were paid for the last ninety six years to keep Chiropractic a secret they couldn’t have done a better job.”

“I see people going to the Chiropractor to get well and leaving their kids home to get sick.”

“If you want to live to a good old age, first choose your grandparents wisely.”

“You are what you eat is not true. You are what your body gets from what you eat.”

“The reason for seeing a Chiropractor is so that you won’t be less than you should be due to vertebral subluxation.”

“I know a guy who doctored himself for 17 years out of ‘Readers Digest’. He finally died of a typographical error.”

“What you eat for dinner tonight will be walking, talking flesh and blood tomorrow.”

“Chiropractic is not meant to get sick people well.”

On the importance of health maintenance, “They won’t sell you life insurance in the ambulance, they know you’re not a good risk.”

On fever, “If you were to adjust to bring it down, that would not be Chiropractic. It would be the practice of physical medicine.”

On waiting for symptoms, “There are people dropping dead today who never did it before.”

On the need for universal Chiropractic care, “I don’t care whether he’s go cancer, leprosy or  rumpture  gumpture of the trashbag.”

“How can you possibly tell people that Chiropractic (above-down) is right and medicine (outside-in) is wrong, when they look at you and can’t tell the difference.”

“If Chiropractic got sick people well, there would be no need for any such thing as maintenance care.”