The Art of Collecting Your Due Monte Zwang Collecting money requires that physicians and caregivers take a preventive and thorough approach to establishing their collection protocol. It sometimes is the elephant in the room with you and your patient: money. You...
Practice Building
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Finding Money for Your Practice
Finding Money for Your Practice Monte Zwang You have researched and planned and prepared; at this point, there is only one thing standing between you and opening the doors of your own practice: money. You are sure that because your business and marketing plans are so...
Getting Your Practice to the Next Level
Expanding Your Practice Getting Your Practice to the Next Level Monte Zwang Is this the year you want to take your practice to the “next level”? Many business owners and health practitioners have their eyes on the “next level,” but they don’t know what that is or how...
Grow Your Business Your Style, Your Way
Expanding Your Practice Confessions of an Introvert Grow Your Business Your Style, Your Way CAROLYN CAMPBELL The dictionary definition of introvert: someone more concerned with the mental life of the self than with social encounters. As much as I try to dismiss any...
Finding Clients Who ‘Get It’!
Finding Clients Who ‘Get It’! By Marilyn O’Leary Ah yes, the blank stares, the quizzical looks and raised eyebrows. As a holistic practitioner, you have likely encountered your share of these. For some, this is a welcome challenge to educate and enroll, while others...
Elegance in Pain Management
Tom Grodski, ND Elegance – the attribute of being unusually effective and simple As NDs, we have a vast array of options available when it comes to treatment, and pain management is no exception. Included in our tool box are western and oriental botanicals – both oral...
Physician Heal Thyself … Why?
Adam Prinsen, ND “Physician, heal thyself.” We hear this phrase in school, from colleagues, and even read it in books. What is so important about healing ourselves? This is something I have been reflecting on. I was listening to one of my patients the other day when I...
Toxicity, Deficiency and Lifestyle Changes
Two factors cause 95% of chronic illness: diet and environment. Indeed, cancer, cardiovascular disease and autoimmune diseases may all bear the same cause: toxicity and deficiency created by dietary habits and environmental toxins. Toxins from the environment are...
Getting Men to Take Care of Their Health
Shandor Weiss, ND, LAc What is the No. 1 issue in men’s healthcare? I propose it is this: getting men to take care of their health. This includes not only getting men to see a doctor, but also to follow through with their doctor’s recommendations. Regardless of what...
Grow Your Practice by Helping People Lose Weight
Michael T. Smith, ND With almost two-thirds of Americans currently overweight, and the fact that 50% of all deaths are due to preventable causes, including chronic diseases directly related to obesity/overweight (Roberts and Barnard, 2005), we as NDs have the...