Most healthcare practices don’t fail because of one catastrophic event. They fail because they spend too long operating in Non-Existence—a condition where there are no reliable statistics, no measurable trends, and no objective understanding of what’s actually happening inside the business. When you can’t measure performance, you can’t manage it. Every decision becomes a guess. In this episode of The Operating Conditions of a Healthcare Practice, I explain why Non-Existence is the first and most dangerous operating condition, how practices end up there, and the first steps to regain control using objective data instead of assumptions. Before you can grow… Before you can scale… You have to know where you actually are.