To increase your patients per hour ratio, increase the seating in your waiting room. Rick Boudreau, practice administrator at the Evergreen Eye Center in Federal Way, Wash., says that’s one strategy doctors often overlook. To figure out how much seating is best for your practice, use a factor of two and a half to three times the number of patients you see, or want to see, per hour, minus the number of exam rooms. That’s the number of seats you should have in your waiting room.