Compounding Problems for Your Practice and Patients? Mike Corrado This past November, Congress passed – and the president signed into law – the Drug Quality and Security Act (HR 3204). The impetus for federal involvement was the sale in 2012 of tainted sterile...
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Grief Recovery & Bedside Manner: Feelings First
Russell P. Friedman The Grief Recovery Institute (of which I’m the executive director) has been connected to the funeral industry for more than 35 years. We’ve also been linked with the clergy from all religions, since they are also at the forefront when there’s been...
Attitude, Faith, Hope & Healing
Angela P. Lambert, ND, LAc, MSOM Originally identified in a JAMA article in 1955, the placebo effect has received increasing interest in medicine for about 15 years now. In 2005, a University of Michigan study proved the release of endorphins and their role in the...
How Will ObamaCare Affect NDs?: Big changes are coming, but it’s going to be a bumpy transition!
Laura Culberson Farr Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) across the country has been confusing at best, and in some states truly reminiscent of the wild Wild West. With every lawyer, insurance company, and government agency seeming to have different ideas...
Online Booking: An Efficient Way to Build Your Practice
K.C. BATEMAN, BSC, ND It was 2006, I was 2 years into practice, and I had just expanded into a second location for the first time. I quickly realized that I needed to find a solution that allowed staff in both offices to schedule patients for me. I needed a way to...
Keys To Running A Successful Naturopathic Specialty Practice
By Darin Ingels, ND I should qualify the title of this article by stating that I had never intended to be a specialist in my practice. Like most of use when we graduate naturopathic medical school, we feel prepared to go out and tackle to myriad of maladies that...
Beware of Recreating Your Past
This is the “New Normal” Jon Bohm Be careful of going back to what you once were instead of moving forward to what you have yet to become. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.” Kahlil...
Audio Presentation: Naturopathic Practice Building
Audio Presentation: Practice Building
Managing Your Biggest Patient – Time
Jon Bohm “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and the only one you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” (Carl Sandburg) You’re a professional, and time matters. You charge for it as a...
How to Create and Grow Referral Sources
Practice Building Kristen McElveen, ND One thing a doctor in private practice must always pursue is productive referral sources. As naturopathic physicians, most of us are not affiliated with large facilities or hospitals where the marketing is left up to a dedicated...