Having a months-long waiting list is, without question, indisputable proof of the health outcomes you're able to achieve in your patients' lives... and a thriving practice.
But it's also a clear sign that you may have already outgrown the 1-on-1 model.
Deep down, you know operating this way is completely unsustainable—your calendar is jammed, you’re charting after dinner... and overall, your life is probably queued at the bottom of that 3-month waitlist.
Can you imagine yourself still doing that 10, 20... maybe 30 years down the line?
Look, it's not that you have to get out of the 1:1 model or that individualized care should be done away with.
Absolutely not!
It's that forcing 1:1 consults to repeat the exact same foundational health education over and over is like using a scalpel to cut cardboard...