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Tik Tok – Healthcare Friend Or Foe
Tik Tok - Healthcare Friend or Foe?TikTok and the ability for a teenager to spend all their waking hours on it, is currently the source of 95% of the arguments in our house (the other 5% revolve around picking clothes up off the floor and putting dishes in the...
Mouth Cancer: The Story of A Patient and What To Do If You’re Worried About Having It
You Never Forget the First Time You Find Mouth Cancer I’ll never forget the day 17 years ago when I saw my first real-life mouth cancer in a patient. Keith and I were working in a remote government clinic north of Sydney, Australia for 3 weeks. We’d only graduated a...
I Can’t Stand Wearing This Mask – My Breath Stinks! Top 10 Things to Do To Prevent Bad Breath
I Can’t Stand Wearing This Mask – My Breath Stinks! Top 10 Things to Do To Prevent Bad Breath When I put on my mask this morning to go into a meeting with our web developer, I suddenly regretted the chilli I’d had for dinner last night – particularly the amount of...
Digital Dentistry! Welcome to the Future Marty!
Back To The Future A couple of years ago over a Christmas holiday we watched the Back to the Future movie trilogy with our then 9 and 7 year old daughters. When these movies were first released in the late 80’s the time travelling events were confusing enough....
To All the Small Business Owners Out There – You Can Do It!
I know I’m not alone when I say that as a wife, mother and business owner, these last 14 weeks have been hard. Every time I look in the mirror I can see more grey hairs appearing and that’s not just because I haven’t been...
Worry About Tomorrow’s Problems Tomorrow
In 1999, Baz Luhrmann released a spoken word single Everybody’s Free (to wear sunscreen). It provides general life advice to the graduating “class of ‘99”. In it he says:“Don’t worry about the future.Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve...
Find the Silver Lining
On Saturday I emerged from 2 weeks of family isolation – my daughter had a persistent cough, which didn’t appear to come to anything – and took a trip to Tesco. I have to admit I was slightly apprehensive about what it would be like. This was my first experience of...
My Kids Call It Nagging, I Call It Motivational Speaking
So this week I had to be a nag - I don't like doing it but someone's got to! To be fair with one teenage daughter and one tween at home, most days I'm a nag, however this week I had to be a nag at work, which I really don't like doing. I knew at the...
You Never Regret A Run
According to the health app on my iphone I took an average of 1,232 fewer steps every day last year than I did in 2018! Over the course of the year that is nearly half a million fewer steps!! That seems a huge amount, but I only have myself to blame. In the first...
Stop Focusing On How Stressed You Are And Remember How Blessed You Are.
Keith and I are very different. I'm the anxious one. I'm the one who worries about every little thing we do in the practice: our staff; our patients; what new techniques we should offer; what new equipment we should buy; do we have enough money to...