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TAO the Book – Installment 3
My first book chronicled my career in dentistry. I made many mistakes in every area of dentistry. I fell down – hard. I wish I had a book like this to help guide me through those difficult times....
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TAO The Book Installment 4 (Willie and me)
Click for great video The Great "Say Hey Kid" PART I : IT’S THE PROCESS STUPID ! CHAPTER ONE: Process- The Key to Success “All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is unhappy in...
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TAO-The Book Installment 5 – Meet Abe Maslow
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs My practice began to remind me of the poem by William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality. I was building a prison for myself, like the one Richard Cabot wrote about in...
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TAO – The Book Installment 6 – Can’t Sing Your Way Out
Look at Everything GIVE BIRTH TO A NEW CULTURE When I first began to search for ways to improve my practice, I was distracted by promises of quick wealth and easy rewards. The “gurus” promised to show...
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TAO – the Book Installment 7 Create Culture
Sangha Working out your own personal philosophy is a starting point. Imagine a dental case where the dentist incorrectly determined the mandibular plane. Everything from that point forward will be...
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TAO The Book Installment 8 Values R U
WHO ARE YOU? The dictionary defines the word “philosophy” as guiding or underlying principles: a set of basic principles or concepts underlying a particular sphere of knowledge. Developing a...
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TAO the Book Installment 9 Culture is the Key
The nice thing about dentistry is that you have the opportunity to choose your own culture based on your own set of values. I am fond of the expression by Boston Philharmonic maestro, Ben Zander:...
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TAO the Book Installment 10 – What patients are looking for
HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA I am a baby boomer. I am part of the generation that was born between 1946 and 1964. Baby boomers have the reputation for being quite independent. There are 77 million baby...
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10 Things Your Dentist Doesn’t Want You to Know
About a month ago there was a blog post that got a lot of attention. It was titled 10 Reasons Your Dentist Probably Hates You Too. It created quite a stir and wrote a post that I called 10 Reasons...
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Relationship-Based Dentistry Brings Satisfaction.
A new patient waited for me to do her examination. She held a book in her hands. When I entered the room, the first question I asked was, “What are you reading?” She told me, and so began my...
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