3 Simple Strategies to Make Patients Ask for Treatment These days, it seems like patients get more and more hesitant to accept the treatment you provide, and without that your productivity plummets.
Your practice is made of data. You need data to identify problems and find solutions. Data is really important, and it can also be really confusing. Data is like a pile of Legos. You know you’re supposed to build something with them, but you don’t know what!
It’s easy to get frustrated when patients don’t want to pay your fees—after all, without those fees, your hard work goes to waste and your practice cannot function. However, I worked with a team member who once told me, “Without value, there’s only price,” and that’s stuck with me.
When you read more, you know more. With more knowledge, you can help patients beyond their dental needs. To get you started on your learning journey, Kirk Behrendt brings back Dr. Uche Odiatu, one of ACT’s favorite health and wellness gurus, to share his ten favorite books that have kept his mind open, challenged, and engaged.
It’s incredibly difficult to find the motivation to work when you’re burning yourself out. More importantly, it starts to affect the rest of your life and the people in it. Burnout is so much more than just stress and fatigue though—it’s a medical condition, according to the World Health Organization.
There’s often a lot of fear and uncertainty around asking for money, and as a result, your practice’s health suffers. You need better financial arrangements if you want to improve your cash flow, so instead of letting the fear of asking patients for money take the wheel, seize control and follow these six steps!
Having a great team is the most important factor in having a great practice, but what do you do when yours isn’t measuring up to your expectations? The idea of “quiet quitting,” or working only enough to get by, is not a new concept, but it’s one that’s increased in recent years.
When you have the right people in the right seats, it makes your practice something truly special. However, when the right people don’t have clarity around their positions, it’s incredibly difficult to achieve great results.
Imagine you just hired a new team member. They have all the skills, qualifications and experience you’re looking for. Does that mean you can leave them to do their thing? No way! All practices are different. Before they can start working, the new hire has to learn how your practice works.
We’ve all said or heard someone else say it before: “It’s just a little bleeding,” “You have a little cavity,” or “Looks like you’ve got some decay.” Sometimes it feels like this kind of language is ingrained in us, but the truth is it minimizes what we do, and we need to remove it from our vocabulary.
