The first post in our new category of “Practice Metrics” - the numbers that affect your alternative health practice. Let’s start with some basic data on new patient visits.
Even the most robust practice will eventually start to dry up without a supply of new patients. For starting your tracking your new patient numbers, you’ll want the following information:
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Few alternative health care practitioners start out as business people. If you poll the ranks of the chiropractic, naturopathic, acupuncture and TCM colleges, to name a few, you’ll find a myriad of reasons for attending, but few of them would be, “I wanted to start my own business.”
You’ll find a genuine interest in helping others. You’ll hear tales of obsession with health and the human body. You’ll even hear ambitious plans to reshape the future of health care, or to find a new way to bring health to even the most economically disadvantaged in all corners of the earth. But you won’t hear many Donald Trump-like tales of building empires.
