173: Introspection and Doctor Authority

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This week’s topic: Introspection and Doctor Authority

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• Why looking inward helps you build your doctor authority
• The value of having a strong doctor presence with patients
• Why introspection is the pathway to authority and success
• Why your mindset matters in practice
• …and so much more…

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Dr Michael Perusich: Okay.

Troy Fox: Okay.

Dr Michael Perusich: Chiropractors how much does introspection? I got to say it, right.

Dr Michael Perusich: Chiropractors does introspection have anything to do with Dr. Authority. Hi everybody. Welcome to the KC chiropoltz podcast brought to you by Katz consultants and chiro Health USA. I'm your Michael perusich. I'm joining of my host Dr. Troy you and I were talking about this before we jumped into the studio this whole idea of being introspective. I said it right being introspective about your practice and what's happening and how that actually leads to doctor Authority. You had a great story that you told me just a couple of minutes ago.

Troy Fox: Yeah, so just give you the short version of that. So we had a week that we had a little less patience a little I'd call it a down week. But if you looked at it statistically week to week. We had a little bit slower week my First instinct and my first response was to immediately start looking at our statistics and see where I was losing patients was my education off was our communication with patients at the front desk off. And so that was my immediate response and we discussed it was a blip on the radar of my practice leveled back out. But that was the first place that I looked rather than thinking. The sky is falling. I'm not sure what to do. My practice is falling off instead I went

Troy Fox: What's been happening here the last week or so and what statistically can I look at to determine where I can do a better job with patients. That's what I mean when we talk about introspection.

Dr Michael Perusich: Yeah, and I think that's such a great topic because far too often. I think we have a tendency to want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. And we just want to dive in and…

Troy Fox: Mm-hmm

Dr Michael Perusich: just start fixing everything or changing everything instead of just really drilling down and first looking inward. we always did this in our practice too anytime. There was an issue that came up. The first thing was what could we have done whether it was patient problem or the numbers were down or whatever. What could we be doing different? So I think that's a great place to start because do The more inward you look I think the better your doctor Authority gets over time because you sharpen yourself up by doing that. And then you're able to lead patients.

Troy Fox: Yeah.

Dr Michael Perusich: in a much better fashion

Troy Fox: And I think it puts you in a position as well. When you're looking introspectively. Sometimes you look and you see a patient that maybe you're working with that could gain benefit somewhere other than I know aghast that every once in a while. You have a patient that may benefit from a different treatment or something that you don't provide. It may be another chiropractor. In this case. I had a couple of patients that came in they were looking for a specific technique and we talked about earlier. My first thought was to put a square peg in around hole. I was gonna figure out how I was gonna get that patient better, but I was gonna circumvent what they really wanted to make that happen because I thought I've got a way that I can make this work. The problem was I really couldn't and…

Dr Michael Perusich: right

Troy Fox: so being honest with my patients and saying hey, that's a technique that I don't practice but here's a doctor that does and so, from that standpoint leading that patient to someone else, what that creates.

Troy Fox: Creates gratitude with that patient and…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: it creates that doctor Authority and we think about doctor Authority in a lot of cases with a patient that we're specifically working with at that time that patient that's laying face down on the table. Do I have authority with that patient? Are they coming to me and asking me when they have digestive problems? What do you think about this doc or they have, a mole on the back of their neck and they're worried about it. Are they gonna ask you about that? When you have achieved doctor Authority. you get questions like that that are sometimes questions that you're not going to be able to answer effectively,…

Dr Michael Perusich: right

Troy Fox: but you are able to send them where they need to go and they trust you to do that. That's Doctor Authority.

Dr Michael Perusich: exactly

Troy Fox: But sometimes when you get gratitude from a patient meaning that you are able to talk to them and say, what? I don't think I'm the right fit for you but here's who I think you should see and it might be another chiropractor that you refer. Patient too because they do that technique you still develop doctor Authority with that patient. I've had patients come back to me with another problem and say hey Doc, I know this you referred me to so and so down the street, but what do you think about this and sometimes I'm almost a bit surprised myself when I see that person on the schedule. I'm thinking didn't I refer them to someone else, but they come back to you…

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Dr Michael Perusich: Yeah. They come back.

Troy Fox: because they trust you.

Dr Michael Perusich: Yeah, and those are the ones I always found refer the most patients in because you built up such incredible doctor Authority. because a lot of patients especially from Chiropractors it's not just us but a lot of chiropractors, we don't refer out. We just wait till the patient figures out. They need to go somewhere else and we let them drop out and walk away. But when you get ahead of that we call that preemptive communication when you get ahead of that a little bit and…

Troy Fox: 

Dr Michael Perusich: you refer somebody out. They think you hung the Moon. And …

Troy Fox: Yeah.

Dr Michael Perusich: can remember one guy that he came in. He'd been to a couple of chiropractors and I did my evaluation and found out he had a huge abdominal aortic aneurysm huge and

Dr Michael Perusich: I called the surgeon down the street and said hey, I'm sending you a guy. I think he needs your help and this patient referred 11 people back to me. I never once treated him. But he referred 11 people back to me. Just because I was the one that found his aneurysm and he got it fixed the next day. having that level of doctor Authority and…

Troy Fox: I

Dr Michael Perusich: having that level with patients where you're willing to refer them out for other things, it's huge practice Builder, which sounds crazy.

Troy Fox: But that's a diamond level tip. And the reason that it is for two reasons one. Yes, you're going to get referrals from that but two.

Troy Fox: From a standpoint of what you're doing as a doctor. You just did exactly what you should have done. You don't wait for the patient to make a determination that hey this is not working for me.

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: I'm gonna go do something else you make the determination for the patient that this isn't working or that you don't have the tools to make that work for the patient and you're honest with somebody up front about it. And I'm not saying that everybody you…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: I'm not saying that you're being dishonest with the patient when you want to treat them. Sometimes we say, hey, we're gonna treat you a few times and just see what happens with this.

Dr Michael Perusich: Where it goes sure.

Troy Fox: Yeah, we're gonna see where it goes at this point and if we don't make Improvement in the first week or two, I'm gonna refer you somewhere else. That's also preemptive communication. We really love using that in practice because it creates doctor Authority but it also is called just doing the right thing. you're leading the patient in the direction.

Dr Michael Perusich: exactly

Troy Fox: They need to go and they're confident because You have told them what the roadmap is in advance. Here's what's going to happen. If this doesn't work and sometimes it's hey, I'm going to change from doing a manual adjustment with you and we're gonna run some cold laser on you I'm gonna switch you over and we're going to do some decompression on your low back because we're gonna see if that's gonna be more effective for you. And so sometimes this is a change of technique in your own office,…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: but you're giving in that road map in advance rather than treating them for two to three weeks not telling them what's going on because it's already in your head. You're thinking. Okay, if this doesn't work, what should I do next? I should probably do some decompression with this patient because this is a disc problem in the lumbar spine. It'll five S1. You've thought of that but you didn't tell the patient that so I would recommend that when you're working with patients that you do preemptively tell patients. Here's the next step and if that isn't working for us, then we're going to make a referral wherever that may be.

Dr Michael Perusich: Yeah, so we need to stop here for a word from our sponsors, but I want to come back and I want to explore this whole idea of thinking ahead of the patient a little bit and…

Troy Fox: Mm-hmm

Dr Michael Perusich: how that helps you build that doctor Authority and how we do that by being introspective. So quick order from our sponsors will be right everybody, welcome back to the KC chiropoltz podcast Dr. Fox and I are sitting here talking about being introspective and thinking ahead of the patience and really doing the right things and how that builds your doctor Authority and really build your practice. so Troy we were talking about, just thinking ahead of patience and there's some simple things that you can do, we all know. Patients are going to have certain questions or thoughts in their mind. why do I need to come in so often be prepared to answer that?

Dr Michael Perusich: What are some of the other ones am Why was I sore after my first adjustment? I thought you were gonna make me better, we know some of them are gonna ask that so think ahead and get those things out and you said this before the break When you get it, you may think it but when you get it out on the table in front of the patient, then they know that you're in command of their care. And when you're in command of their care, that's Doctor Authority.

Troy Fox: And it's really easy to do because you can look through. I mean how many conditions do we truly treat? You…

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Dr Michael Perusich: right

Troy Fox: when you look at the bolus of treatments that you're giving most of them are going to be for headaches neck pain mid back pain low back pain and all the things associated with them not saying that we're not looking at maybe numbness into the toes or something like that. But if we're looking at specifically the areas of the spine that we're treating the outcomes that we're looking for. We already know what's gonna happen after we adjust the patient. They're gonna feel better worser about the same, right? Why not?

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep. exactly

Troy Fox: Tell the patient that right up front. Hey, I'm gonna start working with you you may feel and you may have a feeling because Of other factors that the patient walks in the door with I have fibromyalgia. Okay, Guess what we're gonna do it go with a low Force technique with you, but you may still feel sore. yeah, I kind of figured I would duck but you went ahead and planted that seed in their head rather than them calling back later to the staff going. I'm really sore after my first adjustment is that normal? you should already let the patient know that that's normal because you're working with the patient that may or may not in the case of a fibromyalgia patient. I'm gonna tell them chances. Are you maybe sore whereas somebody that's maybe a 16 year old kid that comes in that's just having a little bit of low back pain because they tweak themselves in sports. You may feel better. You may feel worse you may

Troy Fox: About the same initial when we start to work with you what we're looking for. Is that compendium or that long-term change in your condition? So I'm going to evaluate you each time you come in as well and we're going to talk about it a little bit as I'm working with you so that way they get that Comfort level that you're on top of it you're evaluating and monitoring them but you're not expecting to feel like a million bucks after the first visit. If you leave that opinion in somebody's head or they create that opinion on their own. The problem is there could be a really big letdown that you could have avoided. So that's where introspection plays into. think of it from a standpoint of

Dr Michael Perusich: exactly

Troy Fox: How would I like to be educated and when I say educated I'm not talking Spinal Care class. how would I like to be educated about the progress of my care and what's going to happen, patients want to know?

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: Can you get me better? What's it going to cost? How long is it going to take? Right and…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: so we need to answer those questions preemptively. So to do that you have to introspectively look at different conditions in your practice and cover those with your staff in your head role. Play it with your staff. Say what do you think about this?

Dr Michael Perusich: Yeah.

Troy Fox: Is there anything that I missed?

Dr Michael Perusich: So I'm gonna go back to something you said a minute ago, because we've all had this happen the patient calls up after their first treatment and Dr. Purush made me sore. I don't know what's going on here. He made me worse. I'm not coming back. Use those opportunities to get introspective and you're absolutely right. You have to do this with your staff too. Why did we allow that patient to call us up and tell us that because that's where it starts with us. So we have to think through why did we do that? what were the circumstances behind us doing? we didn't tell the patient that they might be sore. They might not feel any different or they might feel better. We didn't tell them what to do if they're at home and they experience some soreness. We didn't tell them to take a hot shower use ice packs or whatever you tell patients. we have to start.

Dr Michael Perusich: Like that and so we've got all these ideas inside of our head. We know everything a patient's gonna ask because again, you nailed it. How many conditions do we really treat? I mean seriously.

Troy Fox: right

Dr Michael Perusich: And so because of that everybody's gonna say. We know what their questions are going to be. So let's get it all that out of our head.

Troy Fox: right

Dr Michael Perusich: Let's have these conversations with our staff. So they're armed with the information too. And that way we're all preemptively communicating to the patient and always staying ahead of them. another great example is the patient who you're on visit number five. And they start feeling better. And we've them. Go under the impression that pain is the moniker of success with treatment.

Troy Fox: Mm-hmm

Dr Michael Perusich: And they're out of pain and so they get up to the front desk and say I'm feeling great. I'll call you on Indonesia, even though they still have 10 visits left on their treatment plan.

Dr Michael Perusich: We've got to be thinking ahead of that.

Troy Fox: You have to know these things are coming. I mean, it's the same thing that happens with every patient that patient's going to question one is this going to work because maybe they've been in a substantial medical model where the only thing they've ever done is drugs and surgery up to this point. And they're not quite sure that doing something that doesn't involve drugs and…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: surgery is actually going to help their condition. So initially in their head, they're thinking am I gonna get better? If I don't then what happens next? you can preemptively affect that with that communication because you've already become interest respective and you've done it with your staff and sit down and that said what are questions that patients may ask what are some things that we've encountered in the past that maybe we've failed at so you have to be willing when you're introspective to realize that you failed. what To be successful. You have to fail many times.

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Dr Michael Perusich: failures the Stepping Stones to success

Troy Fox: Exactly. That's how you get better at what you do is by making a mistake and…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yeah.

Troy Fox: you're like I wish I had told that patient this because they probably would have been successful with their care. But you may be at that point that one's already water under the bridge when you get to that patient's already decided. I'm not coming back in to see you. It may be that they don't dislike you they like you as a doctor. They just didn't think you were effective, but you didn't preempt any of this and you also didn't tell him. Hey, here's what we're gonna do if this is not working so you have to look at If they feel better before they get to a point, are we discussing what our ultimate goal is? Is it just for you to be out of pain or is it to create function for you? And I talk about that with every patient when they come in.

Dr Michael Perusich: a long-lasting function

Troy Fox: So I talk about the be better days. And that's a really easy one. I always tell people we want you to get better. And for those of you listening and not watching I've got my fingers about an inch apart here get better in inch tall letters. And then stay better or be better in three install letters. The most important phase of your care is getting you to a point where your functional and keeping you there. That's the hard part and that's the one that wins the marathon. So when I was introspective and I answered those questions to myself and then I went out and told my patients what made sense to me now that doesn't make sense to every patient.

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: You're gonna have a patient that it just doesn't resonate with But a lot of your patients think the same way you do they just don't know as much as you do so you have to impart that wisdom on them in a…

Dr Michael Perusich: right In the…

Troy Fox: They understand.

Dr Michael Perusich: they understand it and you just made me think of something and this is really important. Not every potential patient is going to be your patient.

Troy Fox: Mm-hmm

Dr Michael Perusich: It's just not the way it works. And I know when you're first year in practice, you're trying to hang on to everybody I get that but if you've been in practice for a while you should be bringing in patients who believe what you believe. and when you fill your practice up with Everybody who believes the same thing Suddenly It's like the fire hose gets turned on and everybody's referring patients into you with that same belief in mind. We've been studying this and we studied this in Mastermind about how you have to understand your purpose and your belief because that's the people you want to attract into your practice. So it goes back to that introspection of what do I believe

Dr Michael Perusich: And you just made a great point of I tell myself.

Troy Fox: it's

Dr Michael Perusich: What I want to hear. And I create that dialogue so I can have that same dialogue with my patients who believe what I'm doing.

Troy Fox: Yeah, and you have two scenarios with this one as a new doctor. You may not have that sharpened down razor sharp yet at this point. You're in practice. You got a pretty good idea. But as you go along it becomes sharper and sharper and…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: you understand where you want to be. So you're gonna go through phases of what I call shedding or molting in your practice where you're gonna shed patience that don't agree with where you're at in your practice and…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: the type of practice you want to run the other type of practice that will happen with which is exactly what I have been through and I've actually been through it both ways. But the other one is when you buy a practice and you buy it from another doctor and they had a philosophy in their practice of how they practice. Now some patients are going to go along and go, what doc I totally understand where you're coming from and I agree with you others are gonna not agree with you and you can hang on to them kicking and screaming on the way out the front door and they're still gonna walk out.

Dr Michael Perusich: Right and you're still gonna walk out?

Troy Fox: So you have to realize that you will attract that type of patient into your practice and if you're going through that process realize that it's not a one-step process. It's a multi-step process. You will shed and molt multiple times before you reach that maturity in your practice to where it seems really stable most of the time and…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: that's a really important concept to understand because when you have those ups and downs, it can be a bit disheartening because you're like man, I'm putting my heart out there my soul. I care for these patients so much and they just don't get it. if they don't get it, they're gonna find somebody else that gets them or they're gonna find somebody that their thought process assimilates with

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Dr Michael Perusich: Although eventually be back if they come to find out that you probably were as close as I'm going to get to…

Troy Fox: yeah.

Dr Michael Perusich: what I believe. And it doesn't mean they're gonna necessarily be the best patient.

Troy Fox: Yes.

Dr Michael Perusich: That maybe the patient only wants to come in four times a year. That's okay. not everybody's going to be notch patient But when you fill your practice with as many of those as you can find all of a…

Troy Fox: No. And you might be shocked.

Dr Michael Perusich: they start finding you too.

Troy Fox: Sometimes that patient that you really were at odds with and butted heads with initially sometimes become some of your best patients because here's the thing I can lead a horse to water. I can even shove their head down into the water right but I can't make them drink.

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: But if they understand the concept and you continue to gently reinforce and your message stays the same there are times when that patient will evaluate that critically because our patients are smart, right? They're a lot of smart people out there that are coming in to see us…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: because they feel the need to get Chiropractic. They just may not understand why they're getting Chiropractic when the light bulb comes on and they get it why they're They're not trying to win a Sprint. They're trying to win a marathon, right? They're trying to get to the end of the race…

Dr Michael Perusich: right

Troy Fox: which is end of life. Right which is called Wellness Chiropractic Care or a lifestyle change when they make that lifestyle change in their mind they care less about how much pain they're in now if they have a little tweak here and…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yeah.

Troy Fox: there and they care more about the Cadence of care making sure that they stay functional long term those Patients sometimes once they get that in their head, they become very dogged about that and they're even concerned when you're leaving town for a week. I've got to get in there before you leave because my appointments scheduled next week when you're gone.

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: That's the type of patient that you sometimes create when you let somebody use their critical thinking skills and you have given them the information they need to prepare themselves.

Dr Michael Perusich: You made me think of something there was a patient I had who when I first started treating him. After I presented the treatment plan, he literally told me I think you're just trying to get into my pocket. I'm gonna give you a try. But I feel like you're just trying to get into my pocket and he didn't follow my treatment plan. And he came in. I don't know. a couple of times and then I didn't see him for a couple months then he'd come back But he kept hearing about other patients who were having great success by following our treatment plan. And he finally came back one day and…

Troy Fox: Yeah.

Dr Michael Perusich: he said all I'm ready to do it your way and I said It's the way your body needs.

Dr Michael Perusich: And he became a great patient after that.

Troy Fox: Yeah.

Dr Michael Perusich: I referred a lot of people in so sometimes it takes people just a little bit longer but introspectively you have to be prepared for those people. Are you gonna manage those people? How are you gonna talk to those people and you'll know I'm right up front because they'll say something like,…

Troy Fox: mmm

Dr Michael Perusich: no matter what you tell me. I'm only gonna come in when I want to commend. Okay, how are you gonna handle that? Think about how you get ahead of them with that communication factor that answers that question. They're still trying to formulate it in their mind. How do you think ahead of them?

Troy Fox: And before you beat yourself up, let me go ahead and tell you that there will be some that are like that that no matter what you do. They're never going to change and…

Dr Michael Perusich: never

Troy Fox: you are probably gonna handle them sometimes because of difference in personality. You will find that you don't handle them very well. And they probably aren't going to be in your practice very long.

Dr Michael Perusich: right And that's okay.

Troy Fox: They'll be others that you're somewhat on the same wavelength, but maybe they just don't get where you're coming from that you will get along with and they will continue until they come to a determination in their mind and those patients become the ones that we're talking about. So don't beat yourself up if you try to talk to someone and say here's what I still patients. We have two rules in this practice. Number one. I work for you and number two we work together as a team, which allows me the ability.

Troy Fox: To at least tell you what I think you need to do without any animosity. I'm gonna tell you what I think you need to do, and there's no hard feelings if you don't follow it, but I feel remiss if I don't tell you, so those patients when I tell them that if we don't end up because sometimes you get a little bit of push back and sometimes we tend to push back or at least I do my personality type. So if somebody pushes back on me, I tend to push back a little bit and sometimes that patient and I are not going to see eye to eye. It just happens and…

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Dr Michael Perusich: right

Troy Fox: that's an introspective thing that I've looked at over time to realize that I tend to have that personality trait and sometimes that's detrimental to the patient relationship. There are others. I tell them what they need to know and they appreciate the fact that I told them but they're not ready to commit to anything. And that's okay.

Dr Michael Perusich: It's Yeah, I had a patient one time you would have thought she was a sweet little old lady. She was meaner than wet. Snake. And every time she came in she had something derogatory to say to me. She even called me a used car salesman one time. So a couple years later,…

Troy Fox: Yeah.

Dr Michael Perusich: I sold that practice and when I moved away obviously, I told all my patients when I moved away and I sat her down and told her I was leaving she cried. She said you're the only doctors ever listen to me.

Troy Fox: Mm- Yeah.

Dr Michael Perusich: So sometimes you're getting ahead of them and you don't even realize it. Because your personalities just don't gel real well.

Troy Fox: Yeah.

Troy Fox: So here's your homework get together with your staff and you don't have to unload on every condition. You treat pick two and…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: say okay, let's talk about and just make one of your staff an example. You've got low back pain. You come in to see me. Let's talk through every scenario that you guys hear and see at the front desk. What phone calls you guys getting? Aftercare or what phone calls are you getting before the patient even starts care? how can we get ahead of this before we even ever see the patient and…

Dr Michael Perusich: Okay.

Dr Michael Perusich: Yep.

Troy Fox: how can we also get ahead of any complications or any questions that may arise after I've seen the patient and you guys come up with the plan? it's a really easy thing to do introspectively and unfortunately, you may find out the first time you go through this that your staff is going to make you aware that the procedures that you're using now are ineffective at best and maybe detrimental to your practice at worst. So you have to be willing to go ahead and stand there in front of the firing squad, which is your staff and let them go ahead and tell you what you need to hear because sometimes we're avoiding it. So be willing.

Dr Michael Perusich: Yeah, yeah be willing and jump in there and do it and develop communication strategies with your staff so that you all are saying the same thing because when you tell a patient now after you do this and…

Troy Fox: Yeah.

Dr Michael Perusich: you tell a patient after an exam, hey, we may have stirred things up a little bit. You may be a little sore at home. Here's what I want you to do. They get to the front desk in the front desk says the same Guess what they start listening. Yeah, what a constant.

Troy Fox: Wow, what a concept that the staff and the doctor on the same page. I tell you what that is another Diamond tip right there because the truth of the matter is when you and the staff are on the same page. They come up front. They go. my gosh. The doctor told me the same thing. You're on the same page,…

Dr Michael Perusich: Yeah it's truth.

Troy Fox: but how many offices do you go to when I go to my dermatologist? I don't go up front. They tell me something different than what I got told in the treatment room if they say hey,…

Dr Michael Perusich: right

Troy Fox: we're gonna follow up and do this, I have staff at the dermatologist. my gosh, you're gonna love this your Skin's gonna look so much better after you use this product. Whatever. I mean they're always positive. They understand the product that's being put in front of you. They also understand the positives and negatives in other words. yeah, you might get a little redness of your skin the first time that you use this, whatever. I'm just using this as an example, but they are on board…

Dr Michael Perusich: Sure.

Troy Fox: because they've been trained staff that works together with their doctor. makes it much better. And if you're just introspective on your own and you don't involve the staff in this at all, they're going to be providing a different message because now the patient gets to the front and goes I was sore after the first adjustment instead of the staff saying I know Dr. Talked about you about that you might be better. You might be worse you might be about the same or he talked to you a little bit about maybe stir in this up and sometimes I'll use the fibromyalgia patient again, I'll actually walk to the front until the Staff. Hey, I've talked to Cathy a little bit about icing and I talk to her a little bit how she may be a little sore after this because of underlying conditions that she has

Dr Michael Perusich: Yeah.

Troy Fox: Boom the staff knows that as well they're putting out the notes because my staff is notch and they know that they won't remember everything so they just put it in a note right at the beginning when they pull that patient up. There's the communication that we made with the patient they call in they pull it up. yeah Kathy we talked to you about that the other day. Yeah, that's quite normal. Boom. We'll see you this afternoon.

Dr Michael Perusich: Yeah, talk it over with the doctor Will let him know that you got a question. He'll spend a couple extra minutes with you,…

Troy Fox: Yeah.

Dr Michael Perusich: just go through these scenarios. You'll be amazed at how it changes your practice. So get introspective use that to help build doctor Authority and…

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Troy Fox: mmm

Dr Michael Perusich: stronger patient relationships and We gave triple diamond. tips today

Troy Fox: We did.

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Troy Fox: ya.

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