I’ve watched practice management tutorials but find most of these duties outside my scope of work, and setting up the business side of my functional pediatric practice feels very daunting at this time. For example, the QuickBooks tutorials are a bit over my head. Can I hire a biller or bookkeeper to handle that, or do I as a clinician need to learn how to do it? (It’s not my strength.)

Chris Kresser: Absolutely not. I’ll just stop right there. You definitely want to hire a bookkeeper to handle it, and then you can have your bookkeeper watched those tutorials. We’ve provided them in our training because some people do prefer to keep a really low overhead and do everything themselves. I don’t typically recommend that as a strategy. I think it’s much more likely that you’ll experience burnout. If we talk about the concept of unique ability, which I introduced in my productivity course, if you’re familiar with that, if you did that in the beginning of this course, the concept of unique ability suggests that we should do what it is that we feel uniquely drawn to and qualified to do as much as we possibly can, and then we should hire other people to do the things that don’t fall into that category. If we set our professional life that way, then chances are we’ll be not only a lot more successful but a lot happier. If QuickBooks is not falling you’re your unique ability, don’t worry. It’s definitely not in mine either. The first person that I hired, which I mention in the practice management tutorials that one of the first people I recommend hiring with your solo practitioner is a bookkeeper, and if you can set it up so that the bookkeeper could also be the practice manager initially, that could work. They are often fairly different skill sets so might be better to just hire a dedicated bookkeeper and then a practice manager separately.