Dr. DeeDee Wampfler

Success and Chiropractic, the two should go hand and hand. For what you’ve invested both in time and money, the reward ought to be great and it should be great.

Many of us, however, graduated not only with our degree, but with a good amount of debt to go along with it-enough debt to buy a nice house-only thing is- you don’t have the house yet. You haven’t established your business yet, and you don’t have the equipment you need yet either, and all of that will take more-you guessed it, debt. Maybe you’ve got a family to take care of as well, or maybe you’d like one someday. Again, it’s going to require more money.

Entering the Chiropractic profession already significantly in debt only to add to it when starting a practice is not uncommon. You’re not the only Chiropractor facing this problem and let’s face it-it is a problem to face. Whether you’ve been in practice a short while or many years, like it or not, the management of your business and the finances or the lack thereof is something you need to face.

Shouldn’t life be easier now that you’re out of school and now that you’ve got the name doctor in front of your name?

I hope you didn’t graduate with that line of thinking because the work has only just begun. The game (so to say), – has only just began. And it is a losing game if you don’t have a well thought out plan-a plan that works and has been proven to work.

A plan that incorporates it all from hiring, front desk procedures like how to answer the phone and scheduling, to marketing- both internal new patient marketing and external new patient marketing, patient management and retention, new patient referrals, practice stats, financials and overhead control and the list goes on.

Honestly, how much do you know about running a successful Chiropractic office? How much time have you spent studying what it takes to run a successful Chiropractic practice?

This is your livelihood. If you don’t take it seriously, who will?

No one else is going to do it for you. For most of you, your practice is your means. It makes up how you earn your living, how you’re going to pay off your accumulated debt and it’s where your standard of living comes from. By now, you’ve spent at least 5 years learning how to be a doctor and have spent thousands of dollars, but how much have you invested in learning how to run and manage a business?