Shared by Dr. Rossi: receive his free newsletter by replying to: drrossi@mindspring.com Lets talk about the purpose of the first two to three visits. Most new practitioners feel that they should immediately have the patient understand chiropractic after the first visit. This isn't always practical. A person coming into your office in pain and embedded in years of the medical model, isn't always going to be open to a new paradigm of health that quickly. What they should receive after the first visit is "hope". Hope that they are in the right place. The second visit when the "report of findings" is performed should accomplish 3 goals. Show the patient the subluxation. Explain to them about subluxations. Get their commitment to care. The more detailed explanation about chiropractic should be performed during the patient orientation when the patient is capable of listening and understanding (not in acute pain). Remember that we are creating lifetime patients here. People who will enjoy enhanced life and health until, as my friend Richard Santo says, "one of us dies". Therefore education must be gradual and continual. Don't think you are going to change a lifetime of medical model thinking in 2 visits and a 1 hour patient orientation.