Reflecting on IDS last week and also the 'Super Associate' blog, I'm wondering if (like so many other things) dentistry is heavily affected by some sort of hormone, perhaps for dentistry, some sort of mythical hormone 'dentosterone'.
Perhaps a little bit of dentosterone is useful.
Perhaps it gives you the bravery to be able to try something that you would otherwise be too scared to do.
Perhaps it removes shyness and allows you to speak to patients.
Perhaps it allows you to be charismatic and to lead a team, but it would be clear that if that were the case, there would be a point at which you would roll over into an area of an overdose of dentosterone into an area where it became negative rather than positive.
Perhaps when you increased your levels of dentosterone, you would become overconfident; perhaps you would begin spouting rubbish on social media platforms about how you're going to have a billion-dollar corporate.
Perhaps you would bite off more than you could chew clinically from a business perspective and from a team perspective.
Perhaps you would repeatedly change partners and buy cars and lots of things, which showed how wealthy you were, even if you weren't.
Perhaps you would leverage your life to be someone who looked as if they were more successful than they are.
Perhaps dentosterone applies to other parts of society, but definitely, there is a cohort of people within dentistry who seem to have an excessive type of some sort of hormone that isn't really any good for any of us.
Blog Post Number - 4127