From: Dr. Margolies .. 11-13-09 www.chirosmart.net www.chirosmart.net/shop http://boards.chirosmart.net Note: I thank those that have contributed to my local orchestra. There was an announcement of appreciation during this week's rehearsal. This e-mails goes to over 6000 chiropractors in 32 countries. It would be great if everyone reading this would visit their webpage: www.dekalbsymphony.com and scroll down for the link "get involved" and from there donate on-line using your credit card or Paypal. It would be great is every DC just gave $5, let alone $25 or more for a Powerpoint presentation or just as a gift courtesy of my efforts each week. Give it some thought. Posting this week: Practice for sale in Berkeley California .. For sale practice and building in Charlotte, NC .. DC looking for used SAM unit .. DC looking for a traction table and a water massage table .. DC is looking for a MSM 7000 E-mail message this week .. Elimination Diet Want to determine if you are sensitive to an allergen, then the elimination diet is for you. Stop eating food groups that are known to irritate and after a few weeks of detoxing your system reintroduce them one by one, Eventually you will find the culprit and rid it for good. Well, what about your practice. Have you decided to do a similar elimination diet to ward off the evil spirits that plague your success and existence. So true, there are parts of the whole that suck the life and breath of your forward movement but it may be so embedded that only precise review will fetch it forward. Doctor, it's time. Time to determine which areas of practice life has none. Are you in such denial that a staff member or patient's very existence in your office drives the negativity quotient sky high? Doctor, it's time. Time to ask the deep questions and review if productivity sucks because there is complacency, unforgiving poor service and patients that leave confused with no direction from you the director. Doctor, it's about time to turn it around. Turn it around is as difficult as stopping a down hill vehicle while speeding through a rainstorm. At this point you may be able to turn it around, but even then, righting your office while salvaging the good from the bad is difficult at best. The goal is fanciful productizing with all cylinders in gear and ready to go. But with excessive baggage of non-productive office procedures, non-productive marketing events, non-productive staff ownership of their position and most important a non-productive doctor just going through the paces day by day the chore and result is difficult at best. Begin today by an review of procedures and patient/practice management. Write down the obvious overt blocks and with staff assistance get a pulse of the practice. Review a number of patients, those that stayed for their care schedule and those that jumped ship and determine where the breech of procedures, education and value was missed. This begins the elimination diet and a detoxing of your practice Have a Great Day Dr. M Postings: Dr. Joel E. Margolies or www.chirosmart.net have no responsibility for anything posted or purchased either on the website, message board or within his weekly e-mail. Responsibility is strictly between the parties deciding to either post or purchase Practice for sale in Berkeley California: Reply to: dcladywss@yahoo.com For sale practice and building in Charlotte, NC: Call 704-849-6884 DC looking for used SAM unit: Reply to: drdougdc@shawbiz.ca DC looking for a traction table and a water massage table: Reply to slyb7@yahoo.com DC is looking for a MSM 7000: Reply to: drwaynepress@aol.com