This protocol is for the "doc." 

 

It states that you'll arrive at the office to take care of all the stuff involved in running a practice that doesn't involve production, one hour before patients:

 

 

 

 

 

For years I started practice between 10:15 and 10:30 am.  The problem was that the patient was there at 10:00.  I'd take coffee, phone calls, and give anesthesia.  Then I would solve - I mean, create - staff problems.  You get the picture - nothing good came from starting late.

 

Part of running a successful practice does include ancillary duties that have nothing to do with 40-micron margins or palpating tender medial pterygoids.  You need time to do "stuff".  So give yourself time.  And when it's time to produce, produce.