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Sadie Smith

Sadie Smith

Sadie Smith is a reporter and host with Local NEWS Network (LNN.news), producing Durango Local News and Montezuma Local News in southwest Colorado.

Aug 11, 2026

28:43
What are some things that you can take off of your plate, especially if you're a solo doc that's like, "Man, I need a new doctor tomorrow," um, but you don't have it coming to you? What could you maybe hire a CA for or delegate some things to your CA team to help your practice?
28:59
I think you brought up a good point with scanning for sure.
29:01
Um, right whenever I came into the practice, they were just, uh, maybe, maybe not even two years into practice, and so they thankfully had hired a scan tech, and she was really well trained, and then she ended up going to chiropractic school later, which was awesome.
29:16
Um, but she was so passionate, and she was so able to communicate with these patients.
29:22
And also, um, she, she really took a lot of that, I think, emotional load from the docs because they weren't sitting there in the scan room feeling like they had to answer all these questions and do the scan and, you know, a lot at once.
29:36
So I think that was probably the biggest step they took first.
29:39
And then, of course, a new space.

7 MINS LATER

37:11
I'm used to, you know, doing the time-off requests and filling the shifts and leading the meetings." How, how, how do you navigate that? 'Cause I know you've done that so well with your team, Sadie.

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