Re: The negative

Is the main problem with making it financially that it's hard to get enough patients to sustain the practice? For your friends or others who have started their own practice- realistically, how many patients are they seeing each day? When I visited the clinic at one of the ND schools, I was surprised at how few patients there were...I think it was maybe 20 in a day, and that's for a whole group of maybe 20 students in a decent size facility that I'm sure has quite an overhead, not to mention faculty NDs and support staff. I thought that was just the particular clinic though, which some students said is a little slow. I would think there's a lot of interest in having an ND for a primary care physician and so they should be looking at around $60-$80k/yr on average, which is what I think a super slow MD/DO would make (super slow because 1 patient per hour instead of 4, but lower overhead because fewer medical assistants and malpractice and etc).

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