Service not only to individual people but to the profession as a whole has been a hallmark of O'Dell's impressive career. He was the chairman of the committee that brought about the antitrust lawsuit against the American Medical Association in the 1970s and '80s. Within Michigan, he developed a proposal that merged two divergent chiropractic organizations that has been used as a model for possible national unity within the profession. Unity does work when you are unified on this principle. He plans to keep doing those same things every day.
Happiness has nothing to do with fame and fortune.
It has to do with fulfillment. I am one of the luckiest people in the world. Parents Bruce and Judy Ehlich, D.C.s, have been chiropractors for years and now four of their five children are also D.C.s. Their youngest is currently a student at Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic. Her husband, Chris McDowell, DC, is also a chiropractor.