Born to Heal: Dr. Richard Keim's Chiropractic Journey of Passion and Purpose

About me

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I am Dr. Richard Keim, it may sound funny, but I often say I was born to be a chiropractor. I knew when I was three years old that I wanted to be a doctor so I could help my grandmother live forever. Our family chiropractor was the only doctor I knew, and that was the only kind of doctor I knew to be. That changed while I was in college, as a couple of my friends who were studying to be psychiatrists tried to convince me that I should be a medical doctor. I wavered, yet there was always in the back of my mind the belief that it was the allopathic medical system that resulted in the death of my grandpa while I was in high school. He had been rushed to the hospital for what was later diagnosed as a gall bladder attack, unfortunately however, he was misdiagnosed and treated for the wrong thing and he never left the hospital alive. I didn’t want to be that kind of doctor, and I’m glad I’m not. Prescription drugs have become the leading cause of death in America, I didn’t want to participate in the chance of causing any of the grief I experienced when I lost my grandpa.

My schooling took me from Canada to Portland, Oregon where, I received my Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Western States Chiropractic College in 1994. I was enjoying some down time after finishing years of schooling when my cousin in Eugene, OR began to press me to interview with her chiropractor, Dr. Sharell Tracy.