Sometimes it seems really difficult to try and make a difference.
I was driving down the road the other day away from the practice and a guy in a car transport lorry threw his rubbish out his window, it was a coffee cup and a packet of crisps.
We stopped at the traffic lights and I honestly felt like getting out my car to speak to him but the likelihood is that it probably wouldn’t have made a difference. But why should I do that, why shouldn’t I try to chip away at him and make him not do it again because he will feel like he’s being watched? Sometimes it feels too hard. In dentistry we have been beset from all angles over the past few years with horrible development, compliance, regulation, things that seem to be set in our way to stop us being able to treat people as freely and as easily as we would like to make the maximum possible impact. All of these things seem to be insurmountable objects that we can’t make a difference or change.
Or are they?
In the end we probably all should go to the guy that throws things out his window and tell him to stop. We should all, if the opportunity arises, tell people how we feel about things in the hope that multiple voices will help to change things and make a difference for the better.
With that in mind Stephen Hudson has created a very simple little survey to ask the profession what they think of the General Dental Council.
You are allowed to do this, you’re allowed to answer this, it’s ok. It cannot compromise your registration by being open and honest about how you think you are regulated. This survey takes about 30 seconds to complete.
Over 2000 people have already completed this survey and it’s anonymous. So why not complete it? Just click here and it will take you to the survey.
It might make no difference what so ever but it certainly will make no difference if you don’t click it.
This isn’t even being brave completing this survey; the time for being brave will come later. This is just adding your opinion (which ever way it falls) to the ongoing discussion about how we should be regulated and whether or not our regulator actually protects the public.
Blog post number: 1380