I get asked all the time, "Where do you get such good outcomes? How do you know
how to do this stuff?" Really it's from time in the trenches from my
great-grandfather to my grandfather, my grandfather to my dad and my dad taught
me and I want to share with you a couple special lessons that my dad taught me.
Hey this is Dr. Jason West, coming at you with a century of healing. I've got a
whole bunch of requests of people wanting to know what makes a clinic
unique, why we have people coming from all over the place and the many
different treatment interventions that my great-grandfather taught my
grandfather and my grandfather taught my dad and my dad taught me. So this is a
real quick overview of the West clinic. So the West clinic started in 1916, it'll
be a hundred and two years, in January, it was started by my great-grandfather,
Arthur West, and he was a professional musician and his wife, my
great-grandmother, Alice, was always sick and he took her to a newfangled type of
doctor, a chiropractor in Ogden, in the early 1900s and he helped her and my
great-grandfather said, if he ever had his career over again, he would be a
chiropractor, he got the opportunity to to leave his family here in Pocatello
Idaho and go back to Chicago and became a doctor. He started practice in 1916,
right before the worldwide flu, he actually got a great reputation for
helping people with the worldwide flu and then because we were so close to the
railroad, downtown Pocatello is a big railroad spur at the time that he used
to have a lot of railroad executives take a train to Pocatello, have
him work on him and then they would get on the train and leave and he was
actually the one that started this process of having people come here and
then get receive care for services and then go back home and we've actually had
generations of people coming from my great-grandfather's patients, when they
go on vacation they'll come here, they'll go to Yellowstone and they'll come into
the office and get treated. Well, shortly after that, my grandfather started
practice in 1930 shortly after Black Friday of the
depression and it really really affected him, he didn't really trust banks and he
was always concerned that there was another depression coming and the story
of my great-grandfather, my grandfather was that he would take the
money out of the office, put it in his hat, put the hat on his head and then
walk home and basically had a sock drawer that they would put money in, that
was the story that my dad almost told me about my grandfather but he was really
really good at two types of techniques, one called sacred septal technique,
where you do different adjustments on the sacrum in the cranium and we actually
had a really neat video about restoring someone's hearing and also a taste and
how you can change polyps and help with endonasal stuff, that was all of the
things that my grandfather taught my dad and my dad taught me. He also was really
good at irodology, looking at eyes and and seeing different organ structures
related to the eyes, he was joined in practice by my dad in 1961 and my dad
really got into functional medicine at the time when it wasn't even popular,
did a whole bunch of blood chemistry analysis and in the treatment of organ
conditions and sickness through blood chemistry analysis and the right
nutrition and then he got into homeopathy. I'm really biased my dad is
super duper, I would say he's my favorite doctor and a fantastic healer practiced
for 50 years, he passed away in 2011 but he taught me some really really
important lessons that I wanted to share with you and one of the lessons that he
taught me, he loved to go treat, he'd love to go testify in court
for as an expert witness and he always said that he'd love to be able to
educate the jurors and the judge and the plaintiffs and the defense attorney.
I went to court once and said I'd never want to do that again because it was
just something that I, it wasn't my my lane but my dad left it to be an expert
witness and I covered his practice and everybody that came into the office that
day, I literally couldn't take care of because they had these weird unusual
conditions, there was urticarial vasculitis,
there was heme past, death row erythropoiesis, I can't even say it,
some guys teeth was falling out, another had adrenal exhaustion, chronic migraine,
hormonal headaches was another one and I just felt like, man I just don't know if
I made the right career decision because I can't treat doing the people that are
coming into the office and when he came back from his expert witness
testimony, he said, "Son how did it go?" and I looked at him, I said, "Dad I just don't
know what I'm doing." and he put his arm around me, he said, "Jason I need to teach
you an eternal principle. One, is you can never ever stop improving yourself and
number two, you haven't paid your dues yet. You got to learn more." and he said,
"What school teaches you is how to not be a menace to society, what practice
teaches you is that practice is an art and once you learn how to treat people
and that they know that you can help them, then it's a whole different world
so get out there and learn whatever is of interest." So that's when I made a
commitment to go to a continuing education seminar every month, usually
most doctors are required to do one every year, I did one every month,
I've spent doing that for 17 years and I've had some really neat things happen in my
career, I've been doctor of the year twice, I wrote a number one bestseller,
I've been in three documentaries but my proudest professional moment was in
about 2007-2008, after work, everybody left the office and my dad and I were
talking about how to solve the problems of the world
and he paused for a minute and he said, "Jason I would go to you now." and when he
told me that, it was one of the best feelings ever because I felt like seven
years in practice, I had paid my dues and we've been able to do some really really
neat things in clinical practice and it's not me just saying it, I've got tons
of video blogs and written testimonials and video testimonials but the family
history of the clinic where we started with my great grandfather a hundred years ago,
he taught my grandfather, my grandfather taught my dad and my dad taught me.
That's why we get some of the most amazing clinical outcomes that you'll
see and you'll hear about because it's a family history of a hundred years in the
trenches and that's the real quick overview of the office and the clinical history.
I do have five sons, a couple of them are telling me that they want to go
into health care and if they do that, they'll continue, it will be actually
five generations.
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