According to data collected at the ADA Health Screening Program at the 2012 Annual Session in San Francisco, 70 percent of dentists and dental team members examined reported neck or back pain. That’s not too surprising considering the positions many dentists adopt when working. Ergonomics is the science of the physical relationship between you and your environment. It… Read More »
Does this scenario sound familiar? At the end of a day full of making decisions and answering questions, someone asks what you want for dinner and you realize I have no idea what I would like to eat for dinner. The term for this is decision fatigue and it refers to the idea that decision making is like… Read More »
It seems like everywhere we turn we are being urged to meditate in order to reduce stress, improve concentration and otherwise enhance awesomeness (Here’s some bullet points from the Mayo Clinic on the potential benefits of meditation.) Kelly McGonigal, Ph. D., author of The Willpower Instinct: How Self Control Works, Why it Matters, and What You Can Do… Read More »
For starters, we’re assuming that you have blocked off a chunk of time between patients so that you can get a bite to eat. In addition to eating, what do you do with that time? Catch up on paperwork? Chat with a friend? Run some errands? For productivity expert Bob Pozen, the efficiency gained by eating at your… Read More »
The ADA is made up of individuals—here’s one of them. Who are you? I’m Dr. Tisha Rekhi. I’m a member of the Class of 2011 of the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. I’m an associate dentist working for my older brother — Dr. Princy Rekhi — who is the owner-dentist of a three-location… Read More »
Big dreams are great, but if you don’t create space in your life for making progress toward them, then they’re fantasies, not goals. That’s a quote from productivity expert Laura Vanderkam who goes on to write: Build an accountability system–a friend, a group, an app–that will make failure uncomfortable. If you’ve got a run scheduled for Tuesday morning,… Read More »