Are you a fixer?
Many chiropractors define themselves by what they do. But you don't fix patients. They aren't even broken!
Their body has positioned spinal bones in a specific pattern for a reason. (We live in a cause and effect world, remember?) Before you rush in to create your notion of better biomechanics, stop!
Is the stressor (physical, chemical or emotional) that produced the defensive mechanism we call subluxation still present?
Remember, the patient does the reorganization (if there's going to be any), not your thrusting. It's merely energy you make available for their body to help "right" itself.
Showing up as the "fixer" obscures the truth, tempting you to take credit or blame for an outcome you can't control. This is how chiropractors get pushed off their pedestal—whether they or patients place them there.
You can fix a cat. You can fix a car. But you can't fix patients!