Surviving your first months as an associate
So you just finished dental school or a residency and you are ready to move in to a new world. You are done with academia […]
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Implementing new technology into an older practice as a new associate
It was October of 2017, I was graduating in May of the next year, and I happened to score a job from the first and […]
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Will the perfect doctor please stand up?
I’ll never forget the night that the most popular guy at my high school broke down and cried on my shoulder minutes after a varsity […]
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Long before I wanted to be a dentist, I dreamt of being a mother
Looking back, my vision of motherhood was definitely tainted with the unrealistic optimism that comes when you’ve never actually had a child. I became pregnant […]
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From laying asphalt to dentistry: My road to public health
It was another exciting day in the summer of 2011 working for the City of Oregon City Public Works laying asphalt, flagging traffic, crack sealing […]
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‘You look too young to be a dentist’
When I was doing my anesthesia rotation during the intern year of oral surgery residency back in 2000, I was sitting behind the curtain in […]
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