My practice building strategy

[Guest guest]

>Marco: What has maked a difference in your practice?<

 

My practice building strategy;

 

I treat all patients as i wish to be treated. Focusing attention on them alone,

with no difference between those that pay my full fee and those who are on a

sliding scale. If I do not feel i can help someone or i think another modality

or even another TCM practitioner will be better able to help them i refer them.

By treating only those people i can do the best for and treating each patient as

if i have all of the time in the world i have gained the trust of my patients.

Students who sit clinic with me often remark that it seems more like family than

patients.

My patients are my main source of referral.

 

I do not have competitors, only colleagues - and my colleagues know i will

always help with practice or patient questions.

 

The students at CSTCM where i teach know that when they graduate i will be there

as a mentor if needed. I treat them as colleagues rather than a false hierarchy

of student teacher, recognizing that i am still a student.

 

 

The above is my practice building strategy and i get several new patients

refered directly to me each week, often by students, fellow TCM practitioners,

MDs, DCs, and mostly by patients.

 

Doc

 

Marco wrote:

Dear Doc,

 

 

Doc:

 

(ok since then i went back and earned some initials - OMD, DAc, Dipl Ac, DiplCH,

FNAAOM etc. but that has not made a great difference in my practice)

 

 

Marco: What has maked a difference in your practice?

 

Doc:

 

It is about ability to help our patients and this is not measured by initials.

 

Marco:

 

Ofcouarse

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dear doc,

 

Thanks and sound advices they are too.

 

Marco

 

Doc:

> I treat all patients as i wish to be treated. Focusing attention on them

alone, with no difference between those that pay my full fee and those who

are on a sliding scale. If I do not feel i can help someone or i think

another modality or even another TCM practitioner will be better able to

help them i refer them. By treating only those people i can do the best for

and treating each patient as if i have all of the time in the world i have

gained the trust of my patients. Students who sit clinic with me often

remark that it seems more like family than patients.

> My patients are my main source of referral.

>

> I do not have competitors, only colleagues - and my colleagues know i will

always help with practice or patient questions.

>