Be honest. You would have to guess. So would almost every doctor reading this — and that guess is costing you more than your ad budget ever has.
Two days in Bangalore. Fifty practice owners. Your real numbers on the table.
Four question marks. That is not a design choice — it is what almost every clinic in this country can actually produce when you ask. Day one is spent filling them in with your own figures.
We have sat in more than three thousand one-to-one consults with clinic owners. Different cities, different specialities, same seven or eight sentences. Some of these are going to land.
You had a twenty-two day gap this year and you told absolutely nobody.
When you travel, the clinic stops earning. You feel it in the month's number and you resent it.
You have fired an agency. Possibly two. Same story both times.
A patient negotiated your fee, you caved, and it sat with you the whole evening.
You know which month was your best. You cannot explain why it was your best.
Somebody with a weekend certificate opened down the road and is busier than you are.
You are the most qualified person in that building, and this is the one thing nobody taught you.
None of that makes you a bad doctor. It makes you a doctor who was handed a syllabus with a hole in it — and then told to go and run a business with it.
Ten years learning to treat patients. Zero hours learning to treat the practice.
So you learn it the expensive way. Three years, one bad decision at a time, with an EMI running underneath the whole thing.
Practicon compresses that. Two days, fifty owners, your actual numbers, and doctors who already built what you are trying to build telling you what it really took.
No stage lights. No motivational nonsense. A room of people at your level, being unusually honest about money.
We are a practice-growth firm in Bangalore. We run patient acquisition and operations for clinics — aesthetics, dermatology, hair, dental, IVF, surgical. That is the entire business. Practicon exists because the same problems kept coming up on our calls, and a room was the honest way to deal with them.
Yours is losing money at two of them right now. You do not know which two. Nobody does, until somebody opens the numbers. That is what day one is.
And I will tell you exactly why. The moment I publish who is speaking, every competitor in their city knows what they are doing and who they are working with. These are practising doctors with real businesses to protect. They said yes on the condition that the names go to the room, not to the internet.
So the list gets them first. Here is what each one is on stage to answer.
"How do you open the second one without the first one wobbling?"
Funding it, staffing it, and the fourteen months where two clinics earn less than one did.
"What has to be true before you stop being the only one who can do the work?"
Associates, case handover, and why most owners try this two years too late.
"How do you hold your price when three cheaper clinics open the same year?"
What he changed instead of discounting, and what it did to his conversion.
"How do you build volume when the decision takes nine months?"
Long-consideration acquisition, and keeping staff sane through hundreds of enquiries.
"How do you build your own demand when every patient comes through a referral gate?"
Getting off the referral treadmill without burning the relationships that feed you.
"What actually breaks when you go from one location to four?"
The systems that have to exist before the third, told in the order they broke.
Every session is a peer account of running a business. Nobody discusses clinical technique, patient cases or treatment claims from the stage.
You will not be taking notes for two days. Every block ends with something finished — built from your figures, argued with by your table, written down before you leave.
Your enquiry-to-treatment chain, stage by stage, with the denominators agreed. For most owners it is the first time the whole thing has existed on one page.
Built by you, in the room, at room, chair, doctor and procedure level. Including the number almost nobody has calculated: what one empty Tuesday actually costs.
What happens first, who owns it, and how you will know it worked. Reviewed with a facilitator before you walk out of the building.
Tables are set by speciality and city, so the person tearing into your numbers has no reason to hold back — and no reason to take anything home except an idea.
Almost every doctor we spoke to said the same thing about the last event they attended: it was a pitch in a hotel ballroom. Fair. So the constraints got written first and the agenda was built to fit inside them.
Fifty seats means saying no to people. I would rather be blunt here than have you sit through two days that were never for you.
Here is the deal, plainly. We are locking the Bangalore venue and the calendar now, and confirming the last two speakers.
The list gets all of it first — including the names, which are not going anywhere public — and seats open to the list before anyone else sees this page.
Joining costs you nothing and commits you to nothing. No call. No pitch. No salesperson ringing you at nine at night. You get the details, you decide, and if the answer is no then it is no.
Fifty is the room's actual capacity. Nothing on this page counts down.
The dates, the venue and the six names all come to you on WhatsApp before any of it goes public. If the room looks like a fit for where your practice is right now, I will say so. If it does not, I will tell you that too — and you will not hear from us again unless you ask.
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