I'm writing this blog on a Tuesday after a whirlwind trip to Glasgow on Bank Holiday Monday.
Up at 5am on the Monday morning, flew to Glasgow, spent the day working in different coffee shops and little restaurants in the West End (got something in my eye and thought I was going to be sick, it was so painful)
Spoke to an ITI Study Club group with my eye closed with one finger because of the thing in my eye.
Six hours' sleep, up at 5am, back home on the Tuesday.
All made worse because I'd forgotten to tell Alison I was going until Thursday because it wasn't a bank holiday in Scotland and I'd miscalculated!
Never mind.
The reason I was there was to talk about complications in Implant Dentistry.
I've lectured thousands of times, but talking about complications is quite extraordinary, particularly if you're talking about your own.
And so mostly in the talk that I have now, which is about 300 slides, so it can be an hour or a day, you put up things that have gone wrong over the last 28 years.
Some of them beautifully documented from the whole of the team at TCC.
There's something very cathartic about that, about sticking your hand up and saying, “my name's Colin and I'm sh*t at dentistry”
And so, the opportunity to share your story is an opportunity to help other people learn from what happened, but also to help yourself, to share your story.
I have two spaces left at the ‘Learning from Failure Conference’ for dentists who want to share the story about something that didn't go right.
You can do it with pictures, or you can do it with words.
You can just tell a story and share it with the group, or you can show in a presentation or with X-rays or letters or documents - whatever you want.
Maybe you had a GDC case.
Maybe someone tried to sue you.
Maybe something just went wrong that kept you awake at night.
Maybe you learned a lot from something.
Maybe it was an interaction with a team member.
Learning from failure doesn't work unless people share.
The people who come massively appreciate that.
It's a captive audience.
It's up to you to share with them to make it work.
We can't do it without you; you can't do it without us.
Stick your head up.
Hit reply to email me or get me at colin@campbell-clinic.co.uk.
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