It’s quiet at the Clinic at the end of July and August (it always is, and it always has been).
Our team go on holiday and probably so do our patients and the urge is to investigate that and to look at it and to try to make it busier and to try to make it go faster.
By quiet I mean that we’ll have the best financial August that we’ve ever had on record by a considerable margin, but it will be less than June.
And so, the businessman says ‘fix that, make it bigger, make it better. That’s a gap, fill the gap’ and the human says ‘great’.
I think it’s been 2018 since I was able to sit back at the start of the summer and say, ‘it’s ok because we’ll still be here in September’.
It was the 1st of July that I went to see Ed Sheeran at Wembley (the second time I’d seen Ed Sheeran in about 6 or 8 weeks, and it was extraordinary).
We got delayed on the M1 back and we got back really early on Saturday morning about 2am only to get up early, have a mental Saturday and prepare to go to France.
At 5.45am on the Sunday morning I set off for France for the Haute Route Pyrenees only to drive through the night the following week to return back on the Sunday morning in time for my daughter Rosie’s last ever dance show and then Sunday dinner with the family.
On Monday morning I tried to catch up with the things I’d missed and then did four clinical sessions before meeting my friend, John Gibson, who was walking from Lands End to John O’Groats to give him our charity donation from the Clinic and to try to boost his moral and then we had the Rony Jung course at the practice for 2 days.
On the Saturday we entered a dragon boat race for the Queen’s Medical Centre charity at the bidding of my friend and colleague, Carl Dunstan, and raised a sh*t ton of money.
We then had a pretty normal week at the Clinic with loads of patients, a bit of teaching and an extraordinary meeting with a new education partner and then a team day where we threw axes followed by the most unbelievable event at the Outlaw triathlon on Sunday with Louis.
How the f@ck am I supposed to fit anything else into that!
I don’t give you that summary to be a w@*k but just to demonstrate that you can have all of one but then none of the other or some of both and all of none.
I’ve had the most extraordinary few weeks as a friend and a Dad and a would-be athlete and a teacher and a dentist (might be able to do better at the husband bit) and then I’m off to the commonwealths next week.
Just this year though and just now, I’m not going to feel bad that I’m not knocking my head in trying to make the business better and trying to see more people because there’s plenty of time for that in September.
Blog Post Number - 3154
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