Being a Dentist Can Be Dangerous – Diseases – Part 5 – Covid 19 World
2020
So began life in a different world. It felt like all the infection control regime of the surgery had now extended to the whole planet.
Masks everywhere, sometimes gloves, lots of hand sanitisation.
There was the isolation and protection of your loved ones.
After doing limited surgery treatment during the day was going home, watching the latest webinars on Zoom on how to handle the constantly changing and sometimes confusing landscape of Covid-19. Then, some freedom of going to the local café for takeaway food and coffee and walking around for exercise, as all team sports were cancelled. No soccer or tennis (maybe only table tennis!)
I still had to keep my education requirements up during all of this, as all meetings in real life were cancelled. It became very innovative. Registering for an international conference and watching it from my office at home. No duty free!
The dental association were working around the clock to keep up with the changes and to advise the government on how the profession were going to meet the restrictions of Covid-19. There were webinars in the evenings after often a stressful day at work to view without falling asleep!
These webinars included advice on every time the restrictions changed, the introduction of various government assistance measures, human resource issues and, of course, on Covid-19 itself.
We now live in a world of the new normal for now.
Social distancing, screening measures, treatment procedures to suit the Covid-19 status of patients and Zoom with no international travel!
Thank goodness for the technology.
Covid safe
I would like to take this opportunity to thank my staff who continued to work throughout the height of the crisis, keeping the practice and themselves safe. Also, to my patients who were very understanding with all the changes in the way we ran the practice and treated them, to keep everyone Covid-19 safe.
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Being a Dentist Can Be Dangerous – Diseases - Part 6 - Covid 19 Changes