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. 2017 Dec 5;24(1):49-53.
doi: 10.1016/j.echu.2017.09.001. eCollection 2017 Dec.

The John A. Sweaney Lecture: Washington DC, March 2017, Given by Dr Geoff Outerbridge. Our Highest Level of Contribution: Doing the Right Thing, the Right Way, for the Right Reason

W Geoffrey Outerbridge  1
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The John A. Sweaney Lecture: Washington DC, March 2017, Given by Dr Geoff Outerbridge. Our Highest Level of Contribution: Doing the Right Thing, the Right Way, for the Right Reason

W Geoffrey Outerbridge. J Chiropr Humanit. .

Abstract

The following is The John A. Sweaney Lecture delivered by Dr Geoff Outerbridge at the Biannual Meeting of the World Federation of Chiropractic in Washington, DC, on March 14, 2017.

Keywords: Chiropractic; Congresses as Topic.

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Fig 1
Howard Wilkinson and Edna Outerbridge with colleagues and children Ralph and Dorothy at Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomya, Japan, circa 1915.
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Dr Ralph E. Outerbridge with the Hseih family after a treatment at the mission hospital, Junghsien, China, 1943.
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Roisin Durcan, Geoff Outerbridge, Tim Ford, and Richard Brown, Botswana, 2015. This is the site of the first World Spine Care rural primary care clinic in Shoshong.
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Dr Geoff Outerbridge graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 2011. After owning a multidisciplinary clinic for 10 years, he joined World Spine Care (WSC) as the Clinical Director. He sold his practice in 2011 and moved to Botswana with his family for 2 years to open the pilot clinics for WSC. Now back in Canada, he lives in Chelsea, Quebec, continues to supervise the WSC clinics, and has a part-time clinical practice in Ottawa.
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