I LOVE PSYCHology!

I LOVE PSYCHology! But you would never know it, when you read my bio on this web site. Listen, most people are going into the helping fields with the wrong intentions and the wrong agenda. I would have choosen psychology as a field if it was represented by more people who agree with Dostoevski who say, "there is only one thing I dread, not to be worthy of my sufferings." In fact I chant this to myself each day when I am cleaning saliva off my glasses. Come to the office and see!! The Helping fields …This is medicine, dentistry, psychology, teaching, politics, maybe clergy or rabbi (but I must be careful there). Religion for me stands for VALUES… and that alone – represents something we REALLY need today more than ever. I love to question and re-calculate and re-consider what I do everyday. I absolutely refuse to be like everyone else who chooses the helping fields and chooses to be the dentist. And so I ponder each day what I am doing that is becoming complacent or self aggrandizing or secretly done so as to increase a feeling of inner self worth. I don't want to fix people… I want to create an atmosphere to help people so that they may find themselves already "fixed." I don't want to ever say - that I loved the words, "I told you so." Please don't let me say these words. I am a messenger committed by the love for what I do and NOT an all knowing god of dentistry. I am more concerned actually with emotions and much less with "Pure Reason." …pure dentist reason and knowing. And emotions set the stage for a person with a clear mind to make great decisions and possess true intuitive understanding. Emotions bring us to children… and for me children and the child in every adult is what I think we all should live for!!

If I could choose a branch of psychology I would go into developmental psychology, and if you visit my web site you will see Fred Rogers quotes pasted everywhere. He is beyond hero. He is in my mind the most beautiful celebrity mind - inside and out… that I can recall in my lifetime. I am crazy about child development. I am crazy about children in general. The highest form of spiritual development includes becoming MORE childlike!! So why didn't I go into pediatric dentistry? If I did… I would just talk all day about what I love – probably - and never get anything done. I would not be able to pay bills. Speaking of not getting anything done. Besides the adults …the ones we work with every day… are just children with more experiences.

Orange Dental is a busy office. Busy is good! Most know this intuitively, because at Orange Dental when you don't get seen for some time… people tend to give me 2nd and 3rd and 4th chances. I know this because I am still doing what I love and still employed as dentist and people still come back. Un-believable. Think about when you go to your favorite restaurant. When there is a line out the door, I know the food will be great and service even better!! On the slow days watch out. You can't get help if you holler for it. Food takes somehow 3 times longer to prepare… and delivered improperly seasoned, cold or overcooked. This applies at Orange Dental… in fact if I'm not busy I am not properly warmed up. Its counter intuitive, but when I am running hard THEN I am always running better. Better form. Better style - Better technique - And greatest energy!! So if you haven't seen the dentist… please stop worrying… and remember MOTIVATION comes AFTER action. Go take care of yourself and go take care of your values.