How many hours a week do you work? Do you think you’re working too much? Not enough? An NPR Planet Money episode, “Why We Work So Much,” looks at the average hours workers from around the world dedicate to their job. It also discusses economist John Maynard Keynes 1930 essay that thought we’d be working just 15 hours… Read More »
Editor’s note: This is the seventh and final article in a summer series of New Dentist Now blog posts on practice ownership from Wells Fargo Practice Finance, the practice lender endorsed by ADA Business Resources. To read other articles from the series, click here. For most dental professionals, incurring significant debt while completing dental school and acquiring a… Read More »
Big or small, there are pros and cons to working in various dental practice settings, and dentists measure their career satisfaction in different ways. Researchers found that dentists working in large group settings reported more satisfaction with income and benefits than dentists in solo practices, as well as less stress compared to dentists in solo or small practices,… Read More »
Jeffrey Fraum, senior associate general counsel for the American Dental Association, presented an overview of dental employment agreements to dental students at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “You guys deal with contracts all the time. You click through contracts [online] and you get them at the bank. Nobody’s got the time to read them all, but your employment… Read More »
This post is for Tiffani Horton, and for everyone else who is fighting a battle on the inside. I’m against watching the news. Other people can watch the news all they want to. That’s fine. I just don’t want to watch it myself. I don’t want to watch the news because buried in every news reel is a… Read More »
Editor’s note: This is the sixth article in a summer series of New Dentist Now blog posts on practice ownership from Wells Fargo Practice Finance, the practice lender endorsed by ADA Business Resources. To read other articles from the series, click here. Your dental practice is a valuable and beneficial investment that can be an important resource for… Read More »