Issue 10 - July2004

Chiropractic’s business side

When Bill Luckey, the founder of Chiropractic Economics, began publishing the magazine, he wrote:

“We can all agree that there has been an ever-increasing demand from individuals such as yourself for a magazine-type publication within whose pages are discussed the everyday business problems of a practicing doctor of chiropractic. Chiropractic Economics will deal entirely with economic subjects, such as practice building, clinic design, community service, public speaking, as well as financing, taxation, patient relationships and an infinite number of other subjects, knowledge of which will help the doctor of chiropractic to conduct a more businesslike and financially successful type of practice …

“Chiropractic Economics will become the ‘workbook’ of the profession but always within the framework of its editorial policy.”

In keeping with this magazine’s heritage, in this section we look at practice management — not so much from a historical perspective, but from a pragmatic point of view, just as Bill Luckey intended.

We begin with observations and comments from some of the profession's leading practice-management consultants. They dust off their crystal balls and try to see what the future holds for all chiropractors.