The Second Time Around
Dr. Pete Szakacs is back in the office, lured out of retirement by the prospect of a paperless practice
BACKGROUND
Still loving the profession but sick of the paperwork after
some 25 years in practice, Dr. Peter J. Szakacs (“Dr.
Pete”) sold his chiropractic office in suburban
Philadelphia and moved to Florida. Not much later,
looking to be productive again, he established a practice
near Tampa in early 2006.
Now back doing what he loves, Dr. Pete is infused with
enthusiasm about healing patients and about building a
practice in which paper has all but disappeared. The
vehicle that supports his vision is RAPID Complete, a
chiropractic office total solution, from the Healthcare
Business Division of ACOM Solutions, Inc.
Dr. Pete didn’t start out to be a chiropractor. He first
completed pre-med studies at the University of
Pennsylvania, but in the back of his mind was a
conversation that lingered from his high school days. He
had hurt his back in football and had been treated by a
chiropractor who had also helped both of his parents to
avoid surgery. The chiropractor, Dr. John Rucki, advised
him to forget medical school and to become a
chiropractor instead, citing his own highly satisfying
experience in the profession.
THE CHOICE
Dr. Pete followed his pre-med studies with a year of
graduate work and then enrolled in The Columbia
Institute of Chiropractic, now known as New York
Chiropractic College. “I loved it immediately,” he says,“and I never looked back.” Upon graduation, he began
practicing in Long Island, New York then three years
later moved to the northern suburbs of Philadelphia, his
home territory.
Retirement for Dr. Pete was never about a rocking chair
and a fishing pole. For a while, he was CEO of a
chiropractic management firm that developed a webbased
training program for chiropractic assistants, which
he still owns and operates.
Still unsatisfied, he reasoned that by starting from
scratch and employing technology, he could structure his
ideal office environment -- one that is optimized for
patient care and eliminates the paperwork tedium that
had plagued him in Pennsylvania. The result is Quantum
Vitality Centres, where Dr. Pete is currently in solo
practice, supported by 2 office assistants. But
meanwhile, directly across the street, a new building is
rising. Commencing in early January 2007, it will house
Dr. Pete’s practice with two additional doctors and two
job-sharing front office staffers.
“We like to work with serious cases that require an
extended program of applications,” he says. “Often that involves problems such as bad disks that other DCs may
not want to treat, or patients with chronic conditions that
have not responded well to other treatments.”
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