WI are on "location"!   "Live" from Palm Desert, we catch up.  Christmas is over, we catch up.  We tackle some "reddit" input and some listener mail.   Are you open between Christmas and New Years?  Why or why not?   As a listener, are we considered friends?   So your hands shake when treating patients?

Wow!  Time flies.  Where have we been?   I can explain....

Every had your butthole waxed?  Me neither...   Bianca rejoins the show to explain the US "tip culture".  I may not be what you think...

Ok.  Slightly more sober now.   We delve into Facebook groups and share advice.  Issue 1: New owner buys practice and will be FFS (fee for service).  Must you credential them?   Issue 2: PPO third party negotiator can't get all relevant info?  What to do?   Dental influencers.  Do you strain muscles patting yourself on the back?  Is your pity party well attended?   Peace.  

I can explain

Yeah.  It's been a minute.  We explain.

We are back for more, giving Yapi love like we do...  Seriously, don't be dumb.   We traveled, but not together.  Ever done a solo trip?   Advice today was for 3 anonymous posts.  They really get around.  First: How do you handle a parent that you have never met that brings in long time pediatric patients and makes a scene?   If you only work 2 days per week but a new patient calls after hours, who makes the call?  Using a personal cell phone?   Adulting sucks.  If a parent tells their kid...

So... are you adventurous?  Really?  Are you SURE...?   A weekend getaway becomes more memorable than planned.  Or WAS it?   Advice this week:    How do you handle patients that repeatedly no-show for their appointment?     Who do you work for?  The patient, or the person signing your check?

Mondays suck.  That's why we release on Wednesday.  But it doesn't fix Monday....   We stayed home.  No travel diary.  Boring.  Next episode will have some travel.  Promise.   Is it MANDATORY to give time off for a funeral?  Are you a heartless bastard?   Does the office have a cell phone?  How do you text?   At end of day, does everyone leave together?  If someone stays late, do you ALL stay late?!   All this begs the question, why did we apply to dental school?!?

Some of the best parts of travel is hearing the weirdest stuff from history.  Past generations were as messed up as we are!      We made our way to Strasbourg, Luxembourg, and Cologne.  Oh, yeah... for a dental meeting....

Tired of dental talk?  Good, because there is NONE during THIS episode.  Lance and Holly talk about their trip on the WAY to their trip to IDS.  This is how NOT to travel.   Or the PERFECT way....

Back into the CE groove!  Do you work IN your business or ON your business?  Me neither.   We hit Vegas for a weekend to get better at growing the practice, and since we are becoming more niche, we need a different approach.  And to see Wayne Newton.   Viva Las Vegas!

Ever taken CE and at the end decided "nope.  NOT doing that..."  Holly made that decision for Lance after their trip to Spain.     Lance took the Zaga Zygoma Implant class in Barcelona with Dr Carlos Aparicio   It was a fantastic experience, and of course, an adventure was worked in as well.  The trip started in Madrid, with a little tapas tasting, a cooking class, and just a general walkabout.     Then a quick train to Barcelona and the learning began!  "You'll shoot your eye out!"   Until...

So.... we didn't forget about you.  "We were on a BREAK....!"   Lance and Holly are back, and they fill y'all in on what has been going on.  The why....   Lance then talks with Dr Bobbi Stanley and Dr Phil Chahine about their new podcast, The Lucrative Dentist.  They will be hosting a meeting at The Fontainebleau in Miami in May, so be sure to check your schedules, and subscribe to their show. Or email Dr Bobbi at [email protected] or Phil at [email protected] directly!

so.... how did the seattle protocol begin?  Was it Holly's fault?   The show starts with a recap of Lance's bike accident.  Fun. We skip reddit and talk about subjects from Facebook groups, only to learn that all evils start with the RDH crowd....   PEACE

Ok.  Summer is over.  Holly is NOT happy, however, she DOES love Halloween, Thanksgiving...  Have you seen Hocus Pocus 2?

I did NOT see that coming.....

Ready for more WI?  Too bad....   If you start a scratch FFS practice, what does carefully planned and researched mean to YOU?  It may not mean what you think it means.   If you cover for another dental office, do you do it for free?  What IS the common courtesy?   PEACE!

The rant continues.  If you are an employee dentist, is the patient yours or the practice's?  If you left the practice, is it STILL your patient?  If you don't take a CBCT of the implant you placed but it SEEMED to go well, is that a success?  If the patient never returns, can we count it as a win?

So, we FINALLY have nice weather in Seattle.  To have less noise while we record, the AC was turned off.   Bad idea.   Holly is grumpy without wine.  She is grumpy-ER if she overheats....   So this was fun....

We are back!  Back from Chicago, before we head to Whistler, we took a moment, a quick minute.  Many wanted to hear HOLLY'S take on the annual list of 32 influencers from Incisal Edge magazine.   Even with fresh blood, "the song remains the same."   Peace!

Back and "well rested" from a Greek sojourn, Lance and Holly share their foreign exploits.  Can CE be fun?  (hell yes!)   Alex Fibishenko puts on a GREAT CE trip. Look up Dental Implant Masters.   We start with Avid Listener feedback.  THANKS!   Our reddit! comes from someone with 5 years dental experience wondering if they are in the wrong profession.   Maybe.

It's been a minute.  A hot minute.  It's fine.   Another vent session, Holly get's bleeped again....  Prior to heading to Greece, we vent our spleen.     Enjoy....

Grape juice made us late!  Life has been busy....  deal.   Reddit user says they sucked when they graduated and one year later, they still suck.  Time to give up?   Peace!