There is nothing wrong with this value except that personal dreams and private agendas do not always reflect the real needs of the profession, and no personal vision is now adequate to truly represent this vast, diverse profession. The answer is multi-organizational cooperation, with each participating organization confident and secure of their individual values, role, and direction, but responsible and mature enough to work together to get work done. There is little glamour and too little glory for the workhorses of our profession. Still, the example young doctors should see and follow is the selfless worker, committed to progress for the profession rather than the flamboyant individual leader seeking political attention. ICA and ACA take the challenges and opportunities chiropractic faces as we enter our second century very seriously.
Serious challenges require serious, mature solutions.
We recognize that some of those solutions cannot be found within the organizational boundaries of any single group. Nor do those boundaries need to be permanently redrawn to affect progress. I hope these steps will also serve as a clarion call to those tens of thousands of DCs across the nation who are presently sitting on the sidelines. Chiropractic needs all DCs to join and work within a national association and perhaps ICA and ACA working to establish a common front on agreed problems will bring more, badly needed troops into the fight for chiropractic's future. I look forward to a period of serious searching for the means to progress, and believe that the profession will respond enthusiastically to this good-faith effort.