Books
« Previous EntriesA f*ree textbook of skin cancer and its mimics.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012Aimed at medical students, doctors trying to get (re) acquainted with dermatology and other paramedical staff this new on-line text book is worth investigating by dentists and their teams. Dentists are in the enviable but responsible position of seeing our patients regularly and are therefore better placed to observe changes of the head and neck [...]
Messages from Dental Masters
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011A criticism aimed at me by my partner, my coach and (most of all) myself, is that I tend to hide my lamp under a bushel. Here is not the place to deal with my lack of personal flag waving so…. I’M IN PRINT!! A promo. for the new collection “Messages from Dental Masters”. Compiled [...]
Summer Riots – my only comment.
Thursday, August 11th, 2011Watching the events in the UK from Ireland helps me to “see ourselves as others see us.” From the BBC magazine www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14475741 While the looters had cleared out the stock of Currys, Claire’s Accessories and Phones4U, nearby Waterstone’s had been left “without a scratch”
The Weekend Read – “A few words from the chair” by David Clow
Sunday, April 10th, 2011David Clow has written a highly relevant book that should be required reading for dentists and their teams whether they be new to practice or veterans of the profession. His arguments are put succinctly and he challenges many of the established points of view that we take to be automatically true. Whilst this is an [...]
The Weekend Read – Brush by James Goolnick
Friday, March 25th, 2011This review first appeared on GDP-UK www.gdpuk.com I read this book at a single sitting and really enjoyed it as a “fly past”. It’s full of ideas and tips resulting from James’ experiences of personal and professional life, initially as an associate but primarily as founder and principal of Bow Lane Dental in the City [...]
The Weekend Read – The Lombardi Rules by Vince Lombardi
Sunday, February 6th, 2011Barely 50 pages long, I’m suggesting this book on this weekend to tie in with Super Bowl XLV Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) was an American football coach, in a professional coaching career that lasted 16 years from his start with the New York Giants as offensive co-ordinator 1n 1954 until his death from colon cancer in [...]
The Weekend Read – Do More Great Work by Michael Bungay Stanier
Saturday, January 29th, 2011Michael Bungay Stanier is a one off. A much travelled man he was born and raised in Australia, became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and is now a resident of Toronto. I love his sense of fun and innovation, he’s the founder and senior partner of Box of Crayons where he is dedicated to [...]
The Weekend Read: Bounce by Matthew Syed
Sunday, January 16th, 2011I am fascinated by success and failure in sport. I love the small things that make a huge difference, the teams that are odds on favourites but come unstuck, the ability of an individual to turn their fortunes around. I have often wondered what would have happened had Gareth Edwards followed his athletics rather than [...]
The Weekend Read: Finance for Dentists – the essential handbook.
Saturday, January 8th, 2011Near the top of the chart amongst “The 101 Things They Didn’t Teach You At Dental School”© is “Finance”. Sadly a lot of dental businesses, particularly one man “bands”, are still run a bit like the owner ran their affairs as an undergraduate: “the end of the month arrives before the end of the money? [...]
The Weekend Read – Man’s Search for Meaning
Sunday, November 21st, 2010One of the smallest books that I own and one of the most influential. There is little that I can add to the reviews that have already been written. Written in 9 days in 1945 and intended to be published anonymously it was first published in Englisj 1959. Victor Frankl was born in Vienna in [...]
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