Is your waiting room a practice builder--or a holding pen?

From: Medical Economics | Date: July 13, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Do you enter your office through a side door? You might want to walk through the front door one day and take a hard look at what can make or break your practice: the waiting room.

"Some doctors just don't realize how miserable their waiting rooms are," says Atlanta medical architect Richard Haines Jr. Too many are mere holding pens where patients sit in uncomfortable chairs and read year-old People magazines under institutional fluorescent lights.

In contrast, others are soothing practice builders where furnishings, light, and art remind patients of their own living rooms. Here, patients ...

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