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Is resentment brewing like your morning coffee?
The quality of new patients is down, overall numbers are down, resentment is brewing, and the kids and difficult cases are moving towards adult pain relief only. Frustration is high, the fun and adventure of practice aren’t what it used to be. What’s up? Once you have experienced live New Renaissance coaching, there will be…
Ch-ch-check yourself before you wreck yourself
In every field of human endeavor, this one thing lurks just beneath the surface. When you have a problem, an inability, or a challenge; instead of surmounting it, you resign yourself to it. “I can’t” is what goes through your head. No other thoughts whatsoever go into the permanent solution. Instead, we mindlessly meander…
What is your favorite bill to pay?
You need to upgrade your EHR or billing software. Your CA wants (deserves) a raise. 3rd party is asking for more paperwork and is reimbursing at historic lows, patients are getting less and less loyal almost to the point you feel like you’re herding cats sometimes. Your spouse needs some expensive dental work. Two…
Take a stand or watch your practice fall
“People tell us from the time we are born that the world is such and such and so and so, and naturally we have no choice but to accept that the world is the way people have been telling us it is” –The Wheel of Time by Carlos Casteneda Too many times as DCs we…
When you are a DC who is advancing a health concept for the betterment of society, one thing that is for sure: you are going to face a lot of adversity. Abraham Lincoln, MLK, Malcolm X, Ghandi, etc. knew about this resistance. When you attempt to convey this ‘new message’ of health, most people…
Are you really speaking your patient’s language?
Remember your last dental visit, you know, the one with the aching tooth? Did you notice that nobody cared that you were a person, just as a right upper incisor, canine or pre-molar? You feel like the only part of you that matters is that particular tooth. They treat you in a cordial, professional…
