Jen and I made remarkable progress on our chiropractic story this week. I am very confident that it’s going to be a great story when we finish.
During Thanksgiving break, I managed to track down a chiropractor that graciously agreed to be interviewed and be followed around for a morning. His name was Dr. Maxwell and he met all our requirements—his office was outside of Columbia in Fayette, he marketed himself as a family chiropractor and I particularly was interested in his practice because he had a picture of his wife and kids on the front of his website, which emphasized to me that he was committed to the idea of family chiropractic. Of course his website did not say that he had recently set up another office in Columbia, but we didn’t know that when we called.
He seemed willing to let us come and I assured him that we would just observe him for a few hours and not talk to any of his patients or identify them in any way in our story.
Jen and I met on Tuesday to prepare for the interview and headed out early Wednesday morning for the interview. I have to admit that I was kind of nervous going into it because I didn’t know if it was going to be awkward to be in the same room as patients and if I was a patient the last thing I would want was a reporter in the exam room with me. However, it all turned out to be just fine. The patients we met were nice and they went about their business as if Jen and I weren’t there, which is what we wanted. It was a very successful morning.
On Thursday, Jen and I went to our normally scheduled shift and wrote the script of our story. It was actually a bit harder than I expected, because we had a lot of information that we wanted to include, but still had to remain focused on the subject of our story, which was family chiropractic opposed to the controversy surrounding children and chiropractic and pregnancy and chiropractic. But we finished writing and hope someone will look over it before our next shift on Tuesday.
Next week, Jen and I will voice the story and put the whole thing together. I’m very excited about it. I think it’s a great trend piece that touches on a lot of different areas of holistic medicine that will interest listeners.
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