The Dental School Friends Who Actually Get It
About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of friendships formed in dental school and their role in managing stress and isolation in the profession.
There's a person out there who gets it who was there when you failed your first test, cried in the hallway, and had no idea what you were doing. Thirty years later, you can pick up the phone and be right back. In this episode, Dr. Kyle Stanley and Dr. Martin Mendelson talks about the friendships forged through the shared adversity of dental school and why those bonds are worth protecting. Martin just returned from his 30-year reunion at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the first dental school in the world, where classmates have gone on to everything from cosmetic practices in Manhattan to retirement to coaching other burned-out dentists. What makes these friendships different isn't history, it's understanding. Your spouse might not get why a difficult crown prep ruined your whole day. Your dental school friend will. That's what the Grant Study, Harvard's 70-year research on human development, keeps coming back to: relationships are stress buffers. And in a profession this isolating, that's not a soft concept, it's clinical. Kyle and Martin also get honest about the pull to let these relationships slide. Practice ownership has a way of eating everything. But the dentists…
Topics covered
- friendship
- dental school
- mental health
- stress management
- professional relationships
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