{"id":808,"date":"2016-04-20T19:01:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T19:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogadvancedpracticemanagement.webaloo.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2016-04-20T19:01:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T19:01:56","slug":"what-would-uncle-dick-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/what-would-uncle-dick-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would Uncle Dick Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-809\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Uncle-Dick.jpg\" alt=\"Uncle Dick\" width=\"95\" height=\"120\" \/>My Uncle Dick is the reason I\u2019m in Dental Practice Management. After college, I was looking into Medical Practice Management when my Uncle Dick (who practiced Dentistry in Rochester, MN for over 30 years) said, <em><strong>\u201cHey, check out Dental.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> From that tip, I ended up working for the Professional Economics Bureau in 1980 and eventually became their Vice President. Then I started Advanced Practice Management in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>My Uncle Dick really loved Dentistry. He was once President of the MDA in 1979 and very active in Continuing Ed. He was one of the early \u201cPankey Guys.\u201d He also did missionary work in Madagascar and has been an ambassador for Dentistry in other places like China and Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>When I\u2019m running a meeting and coaching dental offices, I often imagine my Uncle Dick is sitting in. Would he be proud of what I am doing?<\/p>\n<p>Dentistry has gotten a lot more competitive and certainly more business-like than in my Uncle\u2019s day. I\u2019m sure Uncle Dick would wince at the huge signs you see in dental offices now (in his day, signs couldn\u2019t be lit and they couldn\u2019t be more than 3 inches high) but he\u2019d sure understand battling with insurance. He dropped participation with Delta Dental around the time he was MDA President.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He\u2019s a big reason why \u201cClinical Calibration\u201d is at the core of our ethical approach to patient education and case acceptance<\/span>. It\u2019s about \u201cCriteria\u201d not \u201cQuotas.\u201d We know that different Doctors have different clinical protocols, but, if their team is effectively presenting dentistry that\u2019s true to their own inner laws, then we can all sleep well at night.<\/p>\n<p>Uncle Dick is still alive and well at the age of 91. He lives with his wife, my Aunt Pat, in Sun City, Arizona, but he has been \u201cattending\u201d meetings with me for the past 35 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Uncle Dick is the reason I\u2019m in Dental Practice Management. After college, I was looking into Medical Practice Management when my Uncle Dick (who practiced Dentistry in Rochester, MN for over 30 years) said, \u201cHey, check out Dental.\u201d From that tip, I ended up working for the Professional Economics Bureau in 1980 and eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apm-news","category-bulletin-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}