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100	1		_aKendall, Gerald I., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDentistry with a vision _h[electronic resource] : _bbuilding a rewarding practice and a balanced life / _cGerald I. Kendall, Gary S. Wadhwa.
264		1	_aHanover Park, IL : _bQuintessence Publishing Co, Inc., _c2019.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aDentistry with a vision : building a rewarding practice and a balanced life -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- One: Just Another Day in Crisis: Dealing with Staff Challenges -- Two: A Tough Call: Spending Money to Make Money -- Three: No Time for an Emergency: Identifying Scheduling Problems -- Four: The Intervention: Learning from Mistakes -- Five: The First Lesson: Making Investment and Financial Decisions -- Six: The $100,000 Day: Applying New Principles -- Seven: A Difficult Beginning: Learning Step 1 of the Five Focusing Steps -- Eight: The 2Aha3 Moment: Grasping the Rest of the Five Focusing Steps -- Nine: Deal or No Deal: Understanding Patients' Six Layers of Resistance -- Ten: Harvesting the Gold: Beginning the Dental Sales Process -- Eleven: Help Wanted: Hiring a Salesperson -- Twelve: A New Plateau: The Dentist As Constraint -- Thirteen: The Working Vacation: Learning to Be Lean -- Fourteen: Quality Time: Simplifying Six Sigma -- Fifteen: Working with the Clock: A Lesson in Scheduling -- Sixteen: Hard Science on the Softer Side of Business: Managing People -- Seventeen: One Year Later: Profits for a Purpose -- Appendix a. Vision Tree for a Dental Practice -- Appendix b. Step-by-Step Success in Dental Practice.
520	3		_aWritten as a novel, this book models a real-life story about how a dentist improved his practice from a loss to over _2million in net profit in a few years while simultaneously enhancing the quality of patient care. Dental practitioners and their staff will find this engaging story an easy and fun way to learn how to implement powerful, scientifically based project management principles into their practice. The story provides a relatable way to understand the approach presented, which encourages dentists and their staff to resist complicated management strategies and cost-cutting techniques and instead implement commonsense measures based on an understanding of the cause and effect that occurs when changes are made in a practice.
650		2	_aPractice Management, Dental _xorganization & administration.
650		2	_aEfficiency, Organizational.
650		2	_aPractice Management, Medical _xeconomics.
700	1		_aWadhwa, Gary S., _eauthor.
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