I've talked about this before, but it's come to the surface again.
This week I was teaching two days in Belfast clinically and then jumping over to Leeds and then 1 day in business, but we're still in a position where what people want is the schematic or the laminate or the plan to make it work.
I noticed when I was teaching clinically in Belfast that people still want me to tell them how to do a sinus lift in a way that means they'll never get sued, and they'll never get a GDC case, and everything will work and everything will be fine.
That's never how the how the world works, is it?
I still have the laminate in my office that I, produced for the year one course, a blank piece of paper laminated, so at the start of the year one implant course I can give that to people and say “here is your plan for your implant career going forwards”.
The truth is there is no plan, certainly not one that you can buy off the shelf or take out of a book.
With all of this stuff you're designing yourself, it's bespoke, and that's what makes it special; that's the unique selling proposition of the plan that you're building for yourself.
You can't do it in AI either.
You can ask the AI a question, and it can give you some ideas, but in the end, the plan is yours. You have to take the leap, and you have to take the risk, and you have to accept that in order to win, you have to be prepared to lose, and then go forward in good faith and do what you can.
Chat GPT will not make you better at providing a sinus lift.
Blog Post Number - 4666
Back in the day, when I got diagnosed with my thyroid disease and I was trying to go and ride the Haute Route 5-day event in the Pyrenees, Alex supported me through that when no one could see. In the lead-up, he even pushed me up a hill.
He wrote a blog after that, which I've kept, and I'll never publish because I don't have guest bloggers here - sorry.
But I remember it, and I remember it well, and so what he said at the end of that was chapeau, and that is what cyclists say to each other out of respect, and when they are impressed.
So, chapeau, Alex.
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