The power of social media

I sincerely hope that the reason for sharing this YOU TUBE video with dentists is understood. We are so incredibly fortunate to do what we do.  We are autonomous, even the insanity of the “ya can’t treat your spouse” law that will probably be on the books ten years from now or about the time … Read more

Shifting gears; the unexpected, the uninvited and the inevitable

I have a birthday looming. When I’m sixty-four isn’t that much farther. Eliot’s suggestion that I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the cuffs of my trousers rolled is beckoning, and the Simonesque image of sitting on a park bench like bookends is forthcoming. Friends are missing by design and default, family members … Read more

Encryption – is there a reason why it’s not being explained?

A individual in attendance at an Ontario Dental Association meeting last evening was told, that unless email messages pertaining to patients are sent “encrypted” between colleagues, they are in essence inappropriate, perhaps illegal and tantamount to violation of the Piracy (excuse me) Privacy Act. I have on numerous occasions tried to turn this blog into … Read more

There is a god; we made the New York Times Sunday Review

IT’S become commonplace to criticize the “Occupy” movement for failing to offer an alternative vision. But the thousands of activists in the streets of New York and London aren’t the only ones lacking perspective: economists, to whom we might expect to turn for such vision, have long since given up thinking in terms of economic … Read more

Retirees – so much to offer, but how?

You’re a retired dentist, now what……….golf, travel, trophy wife??? It boggles the mind that a vast reservoir of applied science and knowledge is about to depart our profession in droves…………….consider the obvious…………….. Grab a peak at http://www.newmiled.com/nme/955 – and find a vehicle, an association, an institution to support what is being described for DENTISTRY – in … Read more

Study: Your Hostile Workplace May Be Killing You

by Meredith Melnick – Time – August 10, 2011 Having experienced this first hand, it’s a MUST read…….. “My job is killing me.” Who among us hasn’t issued that complaint at least once? Now a new study suggests that your dramatic grousing may hold some scientific truth. The 20-year study, by researchers at Tel Aviv University,sought to … Read more

Burned Out? How Doctors Recover Their Spark

From Medscape Today News – Shelly M. Reese When Steve Hyman, MD, from Nashville, Tennessee, looks back,he doesn’t like the person he used to be. “I was a lot meaner then,” says Hyman, an anesthesiologist. “I was a lot less tolerant. I had a chronic depression and I didn’t know what the problem was.” Attributing … Read more