Dr. H.T. Carlson was an old doctor who practiced to the north of me when I was first in practice. I ended up seeing him after I hurt my back trying to "save" a patient who was slipping off the back of my table while she was flipping over. Dr. Carlson was in his early 70's when I met him. His father had been a chiropractor before him in Colorado and evidently they owned most of what is now the Alameda and Federal area of Denver and had been chiropractors in the area for a lonnnnnnnnnng time. At any rate, his family had been in chiropractic practice since the 1920's and when Doc' retired, he sent all his patients to me. Those couple weeks afterwards were a real eye opener for me. I recieved patients in their 70's and 80's who had been adjusted properly since BIRTH. They had the prettiest spines I'd ever seen in my life! Needless to say, this "amateur" only 2 years in practice continued their spinal hygiene.
Just for historical sake, Dr. Carlson had one of the X-ray machines from Speer Chiropractic Hospital..yes, a chiropractic hospital..in Denver Colorado. I was going tohave it moved to my office, but no xray company would touch it. The transformer weighed about 18 tons and they all said, leave it.
Dr. Carlson (Tom as everyone he knew called him) told me some great stories about what it was like to work in the hospital rehabbing various diseased people as a chiropractor. Everything from M.S.-doomed people to a man with gunshot wounds who had been written off by the MD's to go home and die (welcome to the wild west eh?). He talked about seeing 80 patients a day while his wife, Mona, worked the front desk. I still hear stories from his patients about what it was like when they would get to fighting and working at the same time.
Doc's office was bulldozed into the ground and a Walgreens now stands above it. A not-so-well fitting end to a chiropractors legacy.. but I still see a lot of his old patients and their children and grandchildren.
Yours,
Jay Hafner, DC
www.hafnerchiropractic.com
Lakewood, CO 80226
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Monday, March 23, 2009
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