Synopsis
Written as a novel, this book models a real-life story about how a dentist improved his practice from a loss to over $2 million in net profit in a few years while simultaneously enhancing the quality of patient care. Dental practitioners and their staff will find this engaging story an easy and fun way to learn how to implement powerful, scientifically based project management principles into their practice. The story provides a relatable way to understand the approach presented, which encourages dentists and their staff to resist complicated management strategies and cost-cutting techniques and instead implement commonsense measures based on an understanding of the cause and effect that occurs when changes are made in a practice.
Dentistry with a Vision will help you to:
- Identify the few key issues in your practice that are holding you back
- Substantially increase your profits within weeks
- Treat more patients in less time without sacrificing quality of care
- Reduce waste, repeated work, and stress
- Improve relationships among the practitioners, staff, and outside service providers
- Work fewer hours performing more of the kind of treatments you enjoy
- Increase referrals and patient demand for services
- Develop a scheduling system that fulfills the needs of your practice and your patients
Contents
Part I: The Dilemmas
1. Just Another Day in Crisis: Dealing with Staff Challenges
2. A Tough Call: Spending Money to Make Money
3. No Time for an Emergency: Identifying Scheduling Problems
4. The Intervention: Learning from Mistakes
5. The First Lesson: Making Investment and Financial Decisions
Part II: Leverage Toward the Goal
6. The $100,000 Day: Applying New Principles
7. A Difficult Beginning: Learning Step 1 of the Five Focusing Steps
8. The Aha Moment: Grasping the Rest of the Five Focusing Steps
Part III: Increasing Patient Demand for Services
9. Deal or No Deal: Understanding Patients Six Layers of Resistance
10. Harvesting the Gold: Beginning the Dental Sales Process
11. Help Wanted: Hiring a Salesperson
12. A New Plateau: The Dentist As Constraint
Part IV: Lean, Six Sigma, Scheduling, and Managing People
13. The Working Vacation: Learning to Be Lean
14. Quality Time: Simplifying Six Sigma
15. Working with the Clock: A Lesson in Scheduling
16. Hard Science on the Softer Side of Business: Managing People
17. One Year Later: Profits for a Purpose
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About the Author
Gerald is President and founder of MarketKey Inc.
Review
I have practiced dentistry for 37 years, and Dentistry with a Vision has reignited the spark of excitement about practice that got me into dentistry in the first place. Kendall and Wadhwa offer some real gems concrete ideas that I will use in my practice. --Allan Goodman, DDS
Kendall and Wadhwa successfully integrate business models into the real world of practicing dentists to provide practical, commonsense solutions to our everyday dilemmas. Every dentist will have several aha moments. Brilliant and easy to read. --Gary Goldstein, DDS, MBA
Although the book is written from a dentist s perspective, it is a must-read for everyone in the world of health care management. The great strength of this book is the exemplification of process improvement and management methods in a manner accessible to all. Health care professionals reading this book will get an excellent platform from which to spring into action and better their organization. --Sameer Hasija, PhD
As well as being fun to read it also gives numerous invaluable tips on how to make a successful, enjoyable business and make money at the same time as improving patient and staff care. --J. Kerfoot, - British Dental Journal, August 2010
Although the book is written from a dentist s perspective, it is a must-read for everyone in the world of health care management. The great strength of this book is the exemplification of process improvement and management methods in a manner accessible to all. Health care professionals reading this book will get an excellent platform from which to spring into action and better their organization. --Sameer Hasija, PhD
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