6 Pillars of Every Practice

To prepare you for the next sections of the program, we need to go over the following six topics. These constitute the foundation of every specialty practice; we must understand them before start to fixing anything.

Knowing these components is similar to what we had to learn about the anatomy of the teeth and mouth, before we began learning about diagnosis and the treatment of diseases. There is a big difference though; this subject is not nearly as boring!!

The most significant challenge in practice management is creating a positive image of the whole practice for your patients, a wonderful image that motivates them to come back to you and tell others about you. The following six areas each have distinctive roles in creating that image.

Here we start off with the main concepts. We later learn about the diagnosis and treatment of our practice's problems in the "Tests and Tools" section.

1.  Yourself
2.  Your Staff
3.  Your Office
4.  Your Patients
5.  Your Systems
6.  Your Referrers