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Next April it will be 10 years since I came to the practice, in the midst of the greatest professional turmoil of my life.

I was able to reflect on that today for various reasons and certainly will have to do something to celebrate because it’s a big milestone.

One of the things I wanted when I was reinventing my career in 2008 was to have more contact and more discussion with people who did the things I did and who understood the troubles I had.

As I write this blog I’ve just come out of our MDT (multi disciplinary team) meeting with Andy, Neil, Nish and Mark.

We’re able to discuss new cases at the practice, cases currently under treatment, complications and finished results.

We’ve already adopted several guidelines into the practice to make our care better some of which we’ve invented ourselves.

This is more than a clinical exercise, it’s a little community who share their worries and can bounce off each other, speak honestly to each other and discuss what is going on. That is exactly what it is… a community.

In the world of clinician burn out one of the suggested antidotes of treatment for that is creation of communities where clinicians are not isolated and can speak together, they can share their problems and difficulties and they can cry on each others shoulders.

If I was able to achieve anything in the last 10 years in the practice after moving immediately when a corporate take over came in, it was to build the type of community with the clinicians that we have here which is almost impossible in corporate dentistry which is why ultimately in the long term corporate dentistry will not work.

Blog post number: 1494