Remember all my tinctures in Peru? I was pretty religious about all of those things for some time! It was quite an affair!

“Don’t you believe in what we’re doing?” he snapped.

“Yes,” I stammered.

“Then why do you need a physical therapist?” he asked.

I stuttered some more. Something about weighing all of my options and not wanting to shut out any roads to a healthy me. Wanting to keep my doors open…

He seemed to drop it after that and has never brought it up again, but it got me thinking about the relationships we develop with our doctors.

It always seems to me that pregnant women get all freaky over their doctors and totally fall in love with them. I understand they are not “in love” with their OBGYNs, but more “in love” with all the interesting things that are going on in their bodies. I’ve always thought this strange until I realized that I was developing the same sort of feelings for my chiro man and physical therapist.

They tell me things about my body that suddenly make so much sense and are so interesting and I love going and look forward to it every time because I’m always wondering what new I’m going to learn about how I work.

Anyway, my chiro man’s little out burst made me start thinking about all of this. I’d never thought about the doctor-patient relationship from the doctor’s point of view before.