Sort last month by margin, not by count
Take last month's cases and put them in three groups: the work you want more of, the work you are neutral about, and the work you accept because it fills a slot. Now add revenue and chair time to each group. Most doctors discover the first group is a small share of the calendar and a large share of the profit.
That is the actual brief. Not "get more patients" — get more of group one. Which means saying something specific and public about group one, repeatedly, until the people who need it know exactly who to ask for.
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A full calendar is a lagging indicator
Being booked today reflects decisions patients made weeks or months ago, often driven by a colleague's referral, a location, or an insurance list you do not control. All three can change without warning: a network drops, a referrer retires, a bigger clinic opens two streets away with a large budget.
The doctors who get hurt by those events are the ones with no independent demand. Building it while you are busy is the only time it is comfortable to do — and the only time you can be selective about which patients you attract.
The lever that doesn't need more hours
If your hours are fixed, the only remaining levers are price and case mix. Both respond to reputation. A doctor patients specifically sought out arrives at the consultation already convinced, which shortens the sell, raises acceptance of the recommended plan, and makes a fee conversation much easier.
That is why this argument is not about being famous. It is about not spending your fixed, finite chair time on work that neither pays well nor interests you.