Stress or worry can occur for any number of reasons.  It can be very detrimental to you personally and to your practice. It’s probably the result of too many things left un-addressed or not completed. Stress breeds uncertainty and creates a tense office environment. It can put excessive pressure and urgency on your team when micromanagement, to correct perceived problems, only creates other oppressive conditions. Stress causes mistakes, accidents, errors of omission and commission that in general creates joyless, unproductive work for you and your team.

By facing problems head on and not avoiding them, such as establishing treatment and compensation acceptance by patients upfront, you gain control over your practice. With good systems, firm policies, thoroughly managed finances and overhead, and surrounding yourself with a self-motivated team of entrepreneurial thinkers who take on responsibilities and contribute solutions rather than problems, stress is hardly ever an issue.