
Our Journey
I Almost Quit After One Year
One year into solo practice I was done. Not burnt out — broken. I was seeing patients all day, doing my notes at night, trying to figure out marketing on evenings and weekends, and lying awake wondering why I'd spent all those years in school for this.
The care was good. The business model wasn't. I wasn't failing because I was a bad chiropractor. I was failing because I was trying to be a chiropractor, a marketer, an HR department, a billing specialist, and a CEO all at the same time. And nobody had taught me how to do any of it.
So I started rebuilding. Not the care — the system around the care. What if a chiropractic clinic could offer more than adjustments? What if the business infrastructure was already built so the doctor could focus on being a doctor? What if the model itself was designed to grow — instead of designed to grind you down? That question became HealthSource.
Twenty-five years and 300+ clinics later, I still think about that first year. Because every DC who calls us sounds exactly like I did.

Dr. Chris Tomshack
D.C., Founder & CEO





