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We adopted JillyBean during Covid.  While very cute, we questioned her intelligence.  Easily distracted, she appeared not to respond to simple commands such as “come”.  3-years later, I’ve learned a valuable lesson that I wish I had learned earlier.  It would have made my life as a dental practice owner so much easier. What Jilly taught me was that it

5 people including 2 physicians have now been implicated in Matthew Perry’s untimely death from a Ketamine overdose. How are physicians (dentists and health professionals) lured down a path that could result in ignoring good judgment and thebasic principle of the Hippocratic Oath of “do no harm”? And how can a slide down this slippery slope be avoided? Mrs. Jones

I came in second place but I should have won!  Goldberg nicked an Iceberg! What happened to me this week is a continuation of last week’s “Avoiding Icebergs” series.   I try to teach Doctors involved in DSM and TMJ not to make it about the plastic. I teach general dentists not to make it about procedures or the process.

There are Titanic shifts that might be coming our way, like PRICE CONTROLS. The stock market rollercoaster indicates uncertainty in the future.  Over the next several weeks, I hope to give you actionable information that will help you deal with any economic turbulence by avoiding potential icebergs. Most dentists have never taken a course in sales.  In fact, the word

How could 2 of the best tennis players in the world, Rafael Nadal (92 career titles) and Carlos Alcaraz, ranked #1 in the world, (current Wimbledon and French Open Champion) lose to relative unknowns Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek? It’s because raw individual talent is less impactful when it comes to a sport that requires teamwork.  And Nadal and Alcaraz

When discussing presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ vice-presidential choice, CNN’s John King (who converted to Judaism) said that Pennsylvania’s Governor Josh Shapiro presented a “risk”.  Taken in the context of Pennsylvania having the greatest number of electoral votes (19) of all the contentious“swing” states and couple that with the fact that Governor Shapiro enjoys one of the highest approval ratings of

The Blue Screen Of Death resulted in a worldwide IT crash.  Its impact resulted in an estimated $1.9 billion loss in the healthcare industry alone.  Delta Airlines lost over a half a billion dollars. The value of having a “plan B” cannot be underestimated. What’s your “Plan B”? Hopefully, you were spared the impact of CrowdStrike’s glitch.  But, what about

When asked why a rooftop within short range of a presidential candidate wasn’t covered by the secret service, Director Kimberly Cheatle’s response was that the slope of the roof presented a risk to the agents, so they secured the building from the inside.  That answer has been proven to be a crock of #2 as an untrained 20-year-old navigated it

NOTE: This was written prior to the events of 7/13.   Noun:PSYCHOLOGY “the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.” The emotional reaction was immediate, raw and extreme.  The producer and star of a reality TV show had been elected President of the United States.  In Manhattan, where he was

The quality of my life, if not my life itself, was saved by an amazing and talented physician after a colonoscopy with another physician revealed an exceptionally large, aggressive yet pre-cancerous lesion.  That physician wanted to do major surgery.   I was referred to another physician who pioneered a techniqueenabling removal of such large lesions without removing large parts of