How am I doin??

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Hi there,

I qualified in June and have set up my own private practice doing home visits and have a room in a chiropracors that i rent doing two half days a week.....I've treated nearly 50 patients in just under 2 months...How am I doin???

I was wondering is near christmas a quiet period? Or is that a silly question....

I haven't approached the nursing homes yet, heard so many horror stories about them and had lots of discouraging comments from NHS pods who used to do private about their nursing home experiences. Obviously I understand that my sparkling personality and charm could melt the heart of the hardest nursing home manager...lol...so will be looking into that in due course.

I live in a relatively small town 20,000 with smaller towns dotted around it and have conducted a reasonably good advertising campaign......Does anyone have any good tips for generating more business?

Would it be prudent to leave it until after xmas to advertise further?? Peoples minds are elsewhere this time of year i assume....Or do they want nice feet for the xmas party??

J..

 

Around here we get a lot of people that want their feet to look nice because they are going away for a warm winter holiday. We also get a lot of people, especially for orthotics, that want to get in before their insurance switches over to a new policy year.

 

Don't know where you are working from, but the best way to generate more work is to be particularly good at podiatry. Is this possible when you have just graduated?
I find it amazing that people invest the years into their degree, and then wont work a couple of years for someone who really knows what they are doing. Financially you usually earn more working in a strong clinic than a starting business anyway and it allows you to concentrate on the most important thing - becoming a better podiatrist.
A less skilled podiatrist damages all of us. Work on your skills first not your business

 

Are you suggesting that instead of seeing more people and becoming a better podiatrist he should see more people and become a better podiatrist?

 

You actually become a better podiatrist by having someone who can help train you rather than making the same mistakes without knowing. You learn from doing - Yes definitely but mentoring rather than floundering is a better way for the profession to develop the skills needed.

 

Tend to disagree ruby.

I have worked by myself since graduating. I did some locum work to begin with and it is not like you have someone sitting in the treatment room with you. I have got plenty of friends who do the same thing and we all mentor each other.
I understand what you mean, but good luck Johntee!

 

I went into podiatry because of the autonomy that you can have, I've already had 15 years of someone else telling me what to do and don't want to go back to that. I appreciate the obvious benefits of having a mentor but i feel that 3 years training and the knowledge and skills that i have gained in that time are sufficient for treating the patients that i'm seeing currently. I have plenty of help to call upon if anything I get a bit stuck on comes through the door. And of course i would refer on if it was something beyond my scope of practice

J...

 

i have been qualified a while now but still appreciate the knowledge that my principle has, she has more experience than me (esp. with biomechanics) and sometimes just to say " i was thinking this may be the case here-what do you think? and also vice versa.
i have built up a steady patient list-it takes time by being good. word of mouth is always the key to new patients coming through the door.

BTW the build up to xmas can be a bit slow with a mad rush at the end.

 

Approach the nursing homes... I mean someone must be doing them though.... a nursing home is a great source of income.... as you have little to no cost operating there but it does have problems...