Career, Burnout & the Long Game

Dentistry has a burnout problem, and most of the advice about it is either a vacation or a career change. Neither addresses the cause, which is usually a practice built around the dentist's presence, a schedule the dentist does not control and a set of standards nobody wrote down.

These articles are about the long game: how new dentists should sequence their first decade, how to carry the loans without letting them drive every decision, what to do when you are the bottleneck in your own office, and why raising your standards is the counterintuitive cure for the stress.