Hello, everyone. The weather down here in Florida is finally
cooling off, and it feels incredible. Don't get me wrong, I love
hanging around the beach and cooling off in the pool, but not much
beats sitting at an outside bar on a Sunday watching some football
and not sweating through your clothes.
Speaking of watching some good football, how about those FSU
Seminoles? Granted we played Duke this past weekend, but 48-7 was a
blowout, and I got to see it live and in person. My younger brother
and I made the trip up to Tallahassee for the weekend to catch the
game and party a little bit. We had a great time, and I realized
how much I miss college.
All College Day
We had a really cool, world-learning adventure last week at St.
Pete College's All College Day. Dr. Jennifer Illes recruited us
10th trimester interns to perform blood pressure
screenings at this SPC faculty event. We set up our NUHS table,
outfitted it with brochures and cards, and started with the
screenings.
I was happy to see so many of the SPC faculty and staff take so
much interest in our school and clinics. This wasn't just an
opportunity to practice taking blood pressures on people, it was
killer practice on how to market and communicate with people who
weren't all that familiar with our clinics, or profession for that
matter. Now, more than ever, I am realizing how important of a
trade it is to be able to communicate with the public in such a way
that shows that you are knowledgeable, but at the same time able to
show that you are likeable and easy to understand. This skill is
invaluable, and only comes from practice.
I would recommend jumping at any opportunity you could that
requires you to talk to the public. Being able to communicate with
patients in the treatment room is extremely beneficial, but you
first have to get them in the door. I will be performing screenings
for my own office in the months to come, and the practice we had
last week really opened my eyes to how the public really views our
profession, and how I'll have to work to sway people my way.
Negative Nancys
My uncle forwarded me an article last week that I thought was
awesome and would like to share with all you Negative Nancys out
there. The article by Hope Gillette titled "Negativity and Complaining is Bad for the Brain,
Experts Say," alludes to the fact that the brain reacts
differently in response to disturbing or negative information.
Listening to as little as 30 minutes of complaining can damage
neurons within the hippocampus, the part of the brain that deals
with problem solving. The article gives some simple tips to avoid
the inevitable day-to-day complaining that will be hurled your way,
and even how to flip the problem on chronic complainers. It's an
easy read that I thought was pretty cool, plus it gave me an excuse
to tell the complainers in our office to keep it to themselves.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to everyone who passed their board exams; all
the interns down here in the Florida clinic did extremely well.
Hard work always pays off; so don't stop now!
I'd also like to congratulate our very own Dr. Rudy Heiser on
his second consecutive WAG (Wild Ass Guess) award win this past
weekend at the ACCR (American College of Chiropractic Radiology)
convention. The WAG is the pride of the DACBR community and Dr.
Heiser has brought it home to NUHS Florida for the second year in a
row. Florida campus representing!!
I hope everyone has a great week.
Catch you guys later,
Dex