From: Dr. Margolies .. 12-12-02 www.chirosmart.net Postings this week: Virginia practice for sale .. Tempe, Arizona office space for rent .. Associate needed in San Diego .. DC wanted for chiropractic practice in Daytona Beach, Florida .. Metro Atlanta multidisciplinary office needs an IC now .. DC will cover for you in Long Island, NY .. Thompson DC with rehab experience needed for a Morhead City, NC clinic .. DC wants to purchase 1-2 used LUCC DTG instruments .. Atlanta Office is looking to fill two positions one full and one part-time .. DC is looking for some equipment .. Free chiropractic e-newsletter LUCC update: First good news in awhile. The Southern Association of College and Schools placed LUCC on a one year probation prior to affording it full accreditation. This allows students to continue qualifying for loans. The new president of LUCC, Dr. DeSpain, told an assembly of students that he has received letters from chiropractic licensing boards in New Jersey and Ohio saying they would be willing to license Life students if they pass their board examinations. Similar agreements are in the works with a number of other states. The Board of Trustees has also agreed to aggressively pursue legal action against the CCE for their attempt to destroy LUCC. Read all about these stories on my webpage .. look under Chiropractic News. While there check out Previous Postings and Weblinks. Read my remaining LUCC student message at the bottom of the postings section. E-mail message this week: Creative Management Some of us purchase time and creative juices from vendors or consultants with prepared and often scripted marketing and self sustaining programs to maintain the status quo in the office and to hopefully trickle new folks in. This is a unique way to breech the divide of no action. But before you spend good money and look from without consider first the creative juices within. Prior to falling into a trap of deflated self esteem and lack of purpose .. consider a few of your strengths. Possibly you have some publishing skills and are creative with a pen .. either with words or drawing. Possibly you lack the skill to apply pen to paper but have an imagination that can be applied when paired with those who can. How about your ability to administer and plant seeds of constructive ideas. If not you .. how about your staff or some select patients. Have you canvassed their creative skills. Some have an ability to purchase paper and decoration material and within a few hours can transform your office to a Welcome Center of healing in conjunction with a holiday or topical theme of the month. If not them .. how about a few patients that wish to be a part of your goal of community wellness. You may have a staff member or even a few patients that are chair people of civic organizations that can pair with your office for wellness oriented programs .. even to the extent to providing their creative wealth of talent to achieve a collective goal. As we approach the new year .. plant your resolute seeds now. Resolve to establish a monthly or at minimum a quarterly calendar of events with a prior two week window of preparation. Resolve to canvas or survey your staff and then your patients to determine the creative wealth within house. Resolve to establish a staff position .. either a new staff member or another fun addition to a staff members job description .. that will be accountable for implementation of these new or improved timely programs. Managing creative energy is fun and rewarding .. it starts today Have a Great Day Dr. M Postings: Virginia practice for sale: Established practice, solid & loyal patient base. Great base to build on. Reasonably price. Reply to: vapractice4sale@hotmail.com Tempe, Arizona office space for rent: Beautiful modern office off of 2 major freeways. Reply to: Levine@Back4Health.com Associate needed in San Diego: Salary plus generous percentage. Recent Graduate with good adjusting and people skills essential. Chance to take over as owner retires soon. Reply to: to gmlsd@aol.com DC wanted for chiropractic practice in Daytona Beach, Florida: Please call 386-673-9909 and ask for Jeff Metro Atlanta multidisciplinary office needs an IC now: Multidisciplinary office located in Marietta near Roswell and Kennesaw, looking to hire an independent contractor ASAP. Please fax resume to 404-266-2294, attention David, or call the office at 404-264-9553 DC needed for a MD/DC/PT in metro Atlanta: Jobs available Jan, 2003 for current (or recently displaced) chiropractic students: North Atlanta/Dunwoody MD/DC/PT practice hiring part-time / full-time chiropractic students for the following positions: (1) Therapy/Rehab assistant (2) Marketing/Public relations Great opportunities to learn the "business end" of running a practice, and how medical doctors, chiropractors and physical therapists can all get along. Fax resume to 404-591-6890, or send reply to: eschneider@pssinjurycenter.com. DC will cover for you in Long Island, NY: Reply to: ksi-atlanta@email.msn.com or call 404-822-9022. no temp. services please Thompson DC with rehab experience needed for a Morhead City, NC clinic: New multi speciality clinic/office is two blocks from the ocean. reply to: drbobpetttis@yahoo.com or call 252 808 0002 DC wants to purchase 1-2 used LUCC DTG instruments: Hand held instrument parts only. reply to: khdc@cox.net Atlanta Office is looking to fill two positions one full and one part-time: Must have excellent computer and communication skills. Salary commensurate with experience. Reply to: hmotley@bellsouth.net DC is looking for some equipment: 1) x-ray film processor: JPI # JP33 with a width of 20 inches and a length of 25-30 inches 2) Zenth HiLo # 220. Reply to: ChiroDave @aol.com or call 201-933-3040 Free chiropractic e-newsletter: Attract more patients by following the easy steps in our FREE 13 PAGE CHIROPRACTIC MARKETING GUIDE. Get your free report by joining over 400 chiropractors now getting great practice tips from our FREE newsletter. GO TO: www.BusinessofChiropractic.com My message to remaining LUCC students: I thank the many alumni throughout the world that have thanked me for keeping them informed about LUCC. Those who have no interest have no idea how the school廣 treatment at the hands of the CCE .. right or wrong .. hurts. The campus offered many amenities .. including a first rate sports facility with many years of championship teams now gathering dust and being entered as a proud mention in the school archives. Classroom buildings that were first used as a warehouse but eventually blossomed into a state of the art learning facility. There were many warts and valid student and faculty complaints there were marginally addressed by the administration .. no better or no worse than most schools. Let廣 cut to the chase .. the implosion of LUCC .. 2100 DC students down to 680 within a year .. give or take a few hundreds here and there .. is a travesty and horrid blight on the history of chiropractic. Whether you have been a supporter of the school or an opponent of their survival .. you cannot deny the growth and sustenance of an institution that graduated thousands of chiropractors assisting their communities worldwide. Sadly .. many of the vilest opponents of LUCC graduated from the institution they so avidly blast. Many state board examiners and association presidents also graduates. Truth be told .. LUCC was huge and became a money pit for an administration that was tall with ideals and short on practicality .. forcing the pumping action for more students .. more money and creating more unrelenting debt. Those who have left .. left for practical personal reasons .. my wishes for their success and a smooth transition go with the them. Those who have remained must do so with eyes and ears wide open. With the transition of administration and the removal of a chronic ego battle .. the school has a future less structured but no less purposeful. I challenge every remaining student to insist on open communications and accountability from the administration and faculty. Years ago when I taught there .. I was asked my opinion why the alumni support was lacking. I e-mailed my opinion with a clear message .. administration accountability and availability .. student participation .. alumni liaisons before graduation .. simply .. communications. Nothing obviously changed except now the school will be more intimate and driven to survive and succeed. You that have remained .. especially those that are in the upper quarters .. I thank you for holding onto what remains of an institution that provided me a diploma .. that allowed me an opportunity to share with their students .. that doesn廠 deserve its present fate. I challenge each of you to work within the framework of the CCE while preserving the philosophy that is the essence of LUCC .. it can be incorporated within the CCE guidelines. Labels and diagnostic focus is all within the realm of learning .. your application upon graduation is your decision as it has been for everyone else. Don廠 get too hung up with semantics .. instead press harder for Spizzerentum .. if you don廠 know the meaning of the word .. then search and like the holy grail .. once found you幢l be home. I appeal to the CCE to make every effort to make a quick unprecedented and uncharted revisit to LUCC and apply every means to create a fast track towards reaccredidation. The simple brush off of not allowing even a request for reaccredidation until 2004 is unacceptable. Treating LUCC with such disdain is unacceptable. The process of implosion with the scattering of students .. uprooting of families .. financial repercussions of each student and those that supported them is unacceptable. Be that as it may .. what has been done has been done. Let廣 be real .. the fight was between one man and one institution. Only one remains from this long standing battle. The fight is over. The legal battle may just be beginning. Avoid further upset and division in our already divisive profession. LUCC must be viable and will be .. give it a chance to blossom again.