ChiroMissions
During chiropractic school, I volunteered with Mission Life International, the fastest-growing chiropractic nonprofit organization in the world, founded by Dr. Peter Morgan. The organization sends teams of chiropractors and chiropractic students to underserved communities across the Caribbean and Latin America to provide free spinal care to people who would otherwise never have access to it.
I traveled to the Dominican Republic and Haiti border region twice. We set up temporary clinics in churches, community centers, and open-air markets. We adjusted hundreds of people, many of whom had never seen a doctor of any kind, let alone a chiropractor.
Those trips changed me. Not in the way people usually mean when they say that about mission work. They changed me because they stripped away everything that doesn't matter and left only the thing that does: a person in front of you who is in pain, and your hands, and whatever you know about making it better. No insurance forms. No billing codes. No prior authorizations. Just care.
On the Ground
Why This Matters
In communities along the Dominican Republic and Haiti border, access to healthcare is not a given. Many of the people we treated were living with chronic pain they had simply learned to accept. Spinal misalignments that had gone unaddressed for years. Children who had never been checked.
We saw hundreds of patients across both trips. Some walked miles to reach us. Some were carried. Every single one of them reminded me why I chose this path in the first place.
The best version of medicine is the one where the only question that matters is: how can I help you?
These experiences are part of why Oracle Wellness exists. The people in Haiti didn't need a 15-minute appointment and a prescription. They needed someone to listen, assess, and use their hands. That principle doesn't change just because you're in Atlanta instead of Port-au-Prince. The tools get more sophisticated, but the philosophy stays the same: find the problem, address the problem, respect the person in front of you.
I plan to continue volunteering with Mission Life International and expand my involvement in global health initiatives as Oracle Wellness grows. Giving back is not something I do on the side. It is the point.