Where Are the Young Turks of Chiropractic Public Health?
By Rand Baird, DC, MPH, FICA, FICC The phrase “young Turk” is not so commonly used as it once was. According to the New Webster’s Dictionary, it means “an insurgent or reformist member of an organization.” Over time, the phrase came to be applied not just to rebels, but also to younger “movers and shakers” within an organization; younger loyalists who were willing and eager to assume leadership roles. GA_googleFillSlot(“dynamicchiropractic_com_Articles_Pages_Rectangle”); So, where are the “young Turks” of chiropractic and chiropractic public health? I don’t see them and haven’t been able to find them, although I’ve been looking for them for the past several years. Any profession moves on its leaders, not its masses (although they also serve who do no more than pay their professional association dues). And of course, every generation bemoans its immediate successor, the next generation, for its seeming lack of traditional values. But it appears to me that the current lack of young Turks
