Why should every dentist calculate their hourly professional value and use it to shape decisions? Because the number reframes how the doctor spends their time and what activities they should and should not personally do. A doctor producing six hundred dollars an hour in clinical revenue is the wrong person to be running supply errands, doing low-level administrative tasks, or sitting in operational meetings that could be delegated. Yet many dentists do exactly those things, often without noticing, because the activities feel productive in the moment. Calculating the actual hourly value of clinical time, then comparing it to the implied hourly [...]

Why should every dentist calculate their hourly professional value and use it to shape decisions? Because the number reframes how the doctor spends their time and what activities they should and should not personally do. A doctor producing six hundred dollars an hour in clinical revenue is the wrong person to be running supply errands, doing low-level administrative tasks, or sitting in operational meetings that could be delegated. Yet many dentists do exactly those things, often without noticing, because the activities feel productive in the moment. Calculating the actual hourly value of clinical time, then comparing it to the implied hourly [...]

Why should every dentist calculate their hourly professional value and use it to shape decisions? Because the number reframes how the doctor spends their time and what activities they should and should not personally do. A doctor producing six hundred dollars an hour in clinical revenue is the wrong person to be running supply errands, doing low-level administrative tasks, or sitting in operational meetings that could be delegated. Yet many dentists do exactly those things, often without noticing, because the activities feel productive in the moment. Calculating the actual hourly value of clinical time, then comparing it to the implied hourly [...]