Category : Dentistry
Dear Doctor: Here is half your money, take it or leave it
I recall as a student when – somewhere near the last day of school – an instructor would share the funniest things that they’d seen come across their desk throughout the year. It was usually some 5-word blooper from a student or a simple, yet funny misstatement of history that found it’s way into a writing assignment; something that managed to set itself apart from the rest, truly catching the attention of the instructor through…
You can’t be everything to everyone
Decision-making, despite its importance and prevalence in clinical care, has a hard time fining its way into the business side of healthcare. Let’s face it, decisions are hard to make for a cohort that cites risk aversion as one of the most common reasons for not starting a private practice in the first place.
And no other place within the business of healthcare is decision-making more hard to come by than with marketing.
It’s not…
Consumerism in dentistry
In recent years, private practices within the healthcare industry are seeing more and more appeal to the “consumer” rather than the “patient.” This shift is likely due, in part to a number of influences; (1) increasing competition among private practice facilities require differentiation through overall quality of experience, rather than solely on clinical outcomes, (2) increasing co-pays required by patients at the time of service cause patients to be selective about where they spend their money, and…
Clinical expertise without business savvy still fails in dentistry
In any aspect of healthcare, clinical excellence is necessary in order to provide patients with the information and intervention necessary to keep them healthy and return them from illness. Clinical excellence by itself though, still requires intelligent administrative and organizational delivery in order for patients to receive good care. In this article from Net News, this point is made as relates to…
The gift of a smile on Valentine’s day
One of the best rewards of running a successful private practice is the ability to give back to your community. Here is a great example of successful dental professionals in action this Valentine’s day – In Madison, Wisconsin, dental professionals have joined forces to give smiles to survivors of domestic abuse. Over $5 million…
Practice management is all about the patients in dentistry
You’ve probably heard the adage, “no margin, no mission.” This applies to many facets of business, and this article from Dental Economics explains how it applies to the dental profession. If dental practices don’t manage their operations well enough to provide a healthy bottom line, there won’t be any way to help patients in the first place.
I see so many dentists spend an incredible amount of
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