You can describe it precisely to another dentist and watch their face change. Try describing it to anyone else and you get a holiday suggestion....

It starts around four on Sunday afternoon and nothing has actually happened yet. The dread isn't a mindset problem, and no amount of gratitude practice...

Everyone assumes the golden handcuffs are about owning a practice. I never owned one, and for the better part of a decade I still couldn't...

the clinician you meant to be. Burnout in dentistry rarely takes the whole day. It takes the last hour first. On the narrowing window in...

You finish a session and drive home. At some point on that journey you perform a transition. You put away the dentist. You pick up...

Recovery from burnout does not happen in a weekend workshop. I say this not to discourage you, but because false timelines are one of the...

The better you are, the longer it takes to break. And the longer it takes to break, the worse the damage when it finally happens....

It usually arrives around 9pm on a Sunday. Not dramatic. Not a panic attack. Just a tightening. A shift in the quality of an evening...

There is a conversation happening in dentistry about burnout. More webinars. More wellbeing resources. And I need to say something that conversation keeps skirting: the...

I said it for three years before I dropped my handpiece. Not metaphorically. Literally. Mid-session. Hand trembling. Patient waiting. That was 2013 — and I...

You catch everything in your patients. The sneaky decay, the early signs, the things nobody else notices. But later that night, you're the one crumbling....

Part II: The Grief, the Stigma, and the Different Kind of Dentist. The grief surprised me. So did the stumbling explanations, the imposter syndrome, the...