Why I Love My Job!
By Randall Pruitt, DC, DACNB, DAAPM, FACFN, MUAC, CES-NASM
With the unemployment rate at record numbers more and more people are out of work and willing to do whatever they can to make money to support their families. With that said there is not a day that goes by that I don’t give thanks to my choice of careers and the impact that choice has on so many others.
Everyone wants to hear that they have done a good job, no matter what the vocation or job description. It gives you a sense of satisfaction and pride to know that others see your hard work and dedication. My job as a back pain doctor is no different. My acknowledgment of a job well done is a patient responding to my care, someone who has suffered, but now is pain free.
I have had this conversation many times with my employees when they comment on the complete 180 degree turnaround of a particular patient. Often we’ll see someone literally become a different person, they are cheerful, friendly and really happy in sharp contrast to the miserable, edgy, skeptical person they came in here as.
Just today Francesca my front office coordinator told me about a patient of ours who after 20+ years in pain turned around as he was leaving the office and said to her ” You guys have no idea how much you have changed my life”. This patient went through our manipulation under anesthesia program and I can’t tell you how satisfying it is to hear a patient say that. With the programs we offer, treatments like manipulation under anesthesia and spinal decompression we hear comments like that a lot. Our programs have helped those that everything else has failed. In fact our average patient has been in pain for 7.8 months and has tried no less than 3 other treatments and we get them better!
And that is why I love my job…
