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Volunteerism is soul food
I graduated from Northwestern University Dental School in 1976. When my daughters were younger, I volunteered in their classroom for a couple of hours on a near-weekly basis, and I was a volunteer soccer coach for 12 years. Yet, it wasn't until 1999 that I did my first volunteer dental work. Up to that point in time, I wanted to be away from dentistry on my day off during the week.
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New team members
"You oughta be able to learn to fix teeth in a year or two." As a dentist, I've always believed it takes a dentist to really appreciate another dentist. We have a huge storehouse of knowledge which we must extemporaneously access. Even our auxiliaries who work with us daily comprehend only a modicum of the logic and nuanced reasoning behind our work. This is not meant to disparage their intelligence; they simply have not been sufficiently educated because they have not gone to dental school.
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