"We make it better.We promise." This is the Restoration Industry Association's motto published on their website. As a physician, however, I am not sure that, unless you are considering health, you can make that promise. I want to challenge you to think about health in a wider context than you, as a restoration professional, may have ever previously considered.

Whether you realize it or not, health is a component of your business and you, by your actions, decide whether it is a competitive advantage or disadvantage. This is not mere theory, it is good business.

Read the full article by Barbara A. Manis, MD, published in Cleaning & Restoration, May 2010.