KevinMD September 24, 2025
Before venturing into medicine, I was focused on aviation, training as a pilot at age 15. To this day, I can still recite every step of the engine-failure sequence from memory. Pilots are trained this way for a reason: They spend hours in simulators practicing under duress, so that when something goes wrong in the real world, they respond instinctively. By the time they are in the cockpit with passengers aboard, they are already “battle-tested” and can make sound decisions confidently.
Dentists, on the other hand, are trained very differently. In dental school, much of the learning happens in a classroom with limited simulation of “real world” conditions. When they graduate and start practicing, they face unpredictable scenarios, for example,...
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