Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition

page 09DTß About the author Michael Young is the author of the Diagram Prize winning Managing a Dental Practice the Genghis Khan way. He has over 20-years’ experience of managing a dental practice. He taught clinical dentistry at two den- tal hospitals. He was forced to retire from clinical dentistry because of ill health. He is now a writer and busi- ness consultant. During his dental career he was a member of the Char- tered Institute of Management, the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and was the Secretary of the North East Region Committee of the Institute of Management Consultancy. Michael is a former Young Enterprise Busi- ness Adviser. He was also a member of the Expert Witness Institute. His practice was one of the first in the UK to be awarded the British Dental Asso- ciation’s (BDA) Good Practice. He was also an Assessor for the Good Practice scheme. 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Tax & Shipping Visit us at: Booth F 48 __02-03 March 2012/Hall 4, NEC Birmingham Dental A2Z Limited, Unit 11, Pitlochry, PH18 5TL, Perthshire Company Reg # SC 348678, Tax Identification # GB 983322117 sycats compared with the maul- ing a fellow lawyer may give you when defending their client. Unless you want to stick to con- veyance and house purchase, be prepared for conflict. I was nev- er tempted to become a lawyer. Perhaps you could turn your hobby into your fulltime job. Photography, for example, might be something you do at work as well as in your spare time. Could you set yourself up as a freelance photographer? This is just one example, but there must be many more hob- bies you can think of that could become your main occupation. Sometimes people leave dentistry because they have no choice. The two most obvious reasons are because they have had their names removed from the register, or because they are deemed medically unfit to carry on. I suppose it depends at what age you are forced out as to whether or not you need to carry on working and earn- ing, but let’s assume that you ei- ther have to or want to carry on working. Let’s also assume that whichever of these two catego- ries you come under, you would have liked to carry on working as a dentist. For both groups, coming to terms with having to do something different and not out of choice, is often the first hurdle they have to overcome. I had to give up dentistry when, looking back, my prac- tice was at its peak. I can, how- ever, remember a certain sense of relief when I finally closed the door, because for months I had been aware that the condi- tion of my hands and wrists had turned me into a liability, and that physically I simply could not continue. This had made me extremely anxious, and this feeling continued as I struggled to come to terms with what I call “losing my label”. Loss of confi- dence and a loss of self-esteem take a lot of coming to terms with and professional help may be needed. What I then went on to do after my 25 years in dentistry is, I think, fairly well known, but the point is that if you play to your strengths and regard every threat as an oppor- tunity, then you will always find a new road on which to travel. People are often drawn into a particular career thinking that it is something that it is not, or because they feel obliged to join the family business. It’s your career, so even if you realise late in the day that either you are not suited to it, or it is not suited to you, and you have gen- uinely tried to change things, then stand by your decision and move on. For me, the secret of main- Trying something different: Michael Young with his book