Self-employment
Serious personal injury led entrepreneur to become a doctorLook for the 'silver lining'Most entrepreneurs decide to start a business after a significant personal experience. "I found my business passion while going through a life-altering experience," Dr. Karlo A. Suek says. ROGER PIERCE |
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 [ 2007-05-09 ] |
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Dr. Karlo Seuk found his calling after suffering a serious spinal injury.
Suffering from a serious spinal injury years ago, Suek found relief from a chiropractor. His treatments gave him much needed medical relief and a new purpose in life.
"I decided I wanted to help people the same way that chiropractor helped me," Suek says.
Suek completed his medical studies, worked for a while in the profession and went on to launch Universal Chiropractic (www.universalchiro.ca) three years ago. His clinic is located at 6535 Mississauga Rd. just south of Hwy. 401.
Universal Chiropractic's mission is to help people of all ages get healthier naturally, using spinal adjustments, massage, nutrition, exercise and laser therapy.
"UNIQUE APPROACH"
"We take a unique approach to health care," Suek says. "We begin by looking at someone's structural components, their posture, their lifestyle choices and how these all interact to give someone the health or illness state that they are experiencing," Suek says.
Some people forget that medical professionals such as doctors and dentists are also entrepreneurs. They must go through the same business planning and launch process as any other type of operation. In fact, opening a medical facility can be much more complicated, because they require a large up-front investment in sophisticated medical equipment, staff, marketing and health code compliance.
Suek says the best part of being an entrepreneur is "the control to make unilateral decisions on the direction of my company." He says the worst part of self-employment is "being ultimately accountable for anything that goes wrong!"
His future plans include expanding the clinic by adding a physiotherapy room and converting to a computerized paperless client interaction system to allow clients to see their x-rays, spinal alignment and to track their overall progress on every visit.
Suek says his original spinal injury seems like a "silver lining" now. "It brought me to my professional passion, which is so important for any entrepreneur."
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