The Root of It

The Root of It

Hosted by: Leigh Pfeil Goodman

Short fables for private practice owners, and the operational frameworks underneath them. Every problem in a practice has a story. We get to the root of it.

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Two Vacations

Ellen took ten days off and lost twenty referrals. Two years later she took ten days off and lost nothing. The vacation isn't the reward. It's the only audit that doesn't lie.
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The Monthly Coffee Date

June routes every referral in a twelve-clinician practice. The owner hasn't touched one in eleven months. What it actually took to get there — and why trust wasn't the starting point.
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Four Chairs + Six People

Tom hired six part-timers to meet demand and got slower. More people is not more capacity, and the most expensive resource in your practice never appears on the P&L.
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The Woman Who Was the Machine

Priya was interrupted 41 times in a single day. The knowledge that makes you indispensable is the same knowledge that traps you — and you can't delegate a thing you've never said out loud.
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The Diary + the Ledger

Nora guessed her conversion rate was seventy percent. It was thirty-eight. Six systems, one retiring office manager, and 2,600 rows that couldn't answer a single useful question.
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Two Calls and a Closed File

Dana's practice fielded 214 inquiries and converted 61. Her spreadsheet was tidy, color-coded, and quietly throwing away six figures a year. What happens when nobody ever defines what "closed" means.
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