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Running a medical practice takes a lot of time and effort.

With that in mind, are you confident your medical practice is in the best shape it could be?

If you said no, what measures can you take to better ensure health for all you have worked so hard for?

Have You Protected All You Worked for?

In reviewing, see if you have ample protection should something happen to you.

Yes, what would you do if you were beset with a serious injury or something of the like? Could your practice survive it?

This is why it makes sense to go out and find a solid insurance plan to protect you.

Whether Principal disability insurance or another brand; find the policy right for you. When you do, you have taken a big step in the right direction.

Remember, you need to be able to work to keep a roof over your head and food on the able. If disabled for any notable length of time, keeping going can be quite difficult. Rest a little easier knowing you have protection in place. That is should a worst-case scenario come your way.

Along with protecting all you worked for, do you have the right staff put together?

As important as you are to your practice, you can’t sleep on the people you hire.

This is why it is critical to take the time with interviews.

From the front desk person to your physician assistants and more, you need the best of the best working with you.

Remember, most patients only see their physicians for a few minutes or so during a visit. That said they often have more contact with an assistant, front desk person, billing and more.

When you have hired the right people for the right positions, you can rest a little easier. This would be knowing your medical practice is in good hands.

Do Enough Consumers Know About You?

As important as your finances and the right employees are, you also need to promote.

Are you doing enough to promote your medical practice to the local community? If not, this can make it much more difficult to get patients coming through the door.

Among the ways to go about promoting what your practice has to offer:

· Marketing and advertising – Are you doing traditional marketing and advertising? This would include things like newspaper ads, emails, TV spots and more. You need to make sure local and surrounding communities know about your practice.

· Social media – How good of a job are you doing with social media? More physicians need to come to realize that social networking can go a long way in helping them out.

· Your patients – Keep in mind that many of your patients can also help you out when it comes to promotions. When they tell friends and co-workers about you, this can be more business coming your way.

As you look to make your practice healthier, know that all you have invested in needs to get a clean bill of health.

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I had just witnessed in action what Douglas Axe describes in his book Undeniable as the design intuition. Howard Glicksman

NIH just funded five centers to explore what the "dark matter genome" (the non-protein-coding part) is doing. Evolution News & Views

The often-heard assertion that a scientific "consensus" exists in favor of orthodox Darwinian theory is true only on the surface. David Klinghoffer http://www.discovery.org/p/209

Many pastors, priests, and rabbis, have been captivated by the idea that they can have their cake and eat it too. David Klinghoffer http://www.discovery.org/p/209

At the University of South Florida, the discussion period was "fantastic," and the time allotted had to be extended. Evolution News & Views

As often happens, Darwinists have things exactly upside-down. Jonathan Wells http://www.discovery.org/p/41

A dismissive attitude to intelligent design cannot survive a sustained encounter with the best science and scholarship from the ID community. Evolution News & Views

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Critical analysis does not entail any discussion of religion. Sarah Chaffee

Darwin Day is coming up -- February 12, aka Academic Freedom Day. Yes, that means we'll be introducing you to a new Censor of the Year. Evolution News & Views

On ID the Future, CSC Senior Fellow Ann Gauger discusses a recent paper in the journal Cell. Evolution News & Views

Dr. Swamidass is an Assistant Professor of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine at Washington University, and a frequent critic of intelligent design. Brian Miller

In his new book, Tom Bethell cites a telling lecture by origin-of-life researcher Nita Sahai. David Klinghoffer http://www.discovery.org/p/209

My wife was complaining to me today that I don't podcast enough. Hah! Here's a new episode of ID the Future. David Klinghoffer http://www.discovery.org/p/209

The Texas Board of Education met this past week to discuss the streamlining of its science standards, greeted by much news attention. Sarah Chaffee

This legislation, if passed, would protect teachers who wish to discuss the "scientific strengths and weaknesses of existing scientific theories." Sarah Chaffee

If science ever becomes conflated in the public mind with left-wing advocacy, it will profoundly harm that crucial sector. Wesley J. Smith http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism