If you’ve ever feared a call from the GDC or falling foul of today’s increasingly litigious working environment, this episode is for you.
Payman sits down for a chat with medical and dental indemnity expert Gary Monaghan about the challenges of covering the profession.
Gary talks about his early experience in plastic surgery and the parallels with dentistry. He reveals how his indemnity service PDI assesses risk, discusses defensive dentistry and describes what happens when the GDC calls.
Enjoy!
02.45 - Backstory
06.40 - The surgical landscape
09.01 - The mutual model
12.34 - Dental Vs surgical indemnity
25.19 - Risk profiles and management
35.20 - A shoulder to cry on
41.55 - Call records
44.28 - Assessing risk and underwriting
48.18 - Iron-manning mutuals
53.30 - On fear
55.40 - The economic climate
57.31 - The future of PDI
59.48 - Educating clients
01.02.15 - Refusing cover and defensive dentistry
01.07.44 - Fantasy dinner party
01.10.41 - Last days and legacy
Gary Monaghan has been at the helm of several insured indemnity providers in the medical field. He is the co-founder of Professional Dental Indemnity ( PDI), specialising in cover for dental professionals. Gary has provided cover for thousands of clinicians over a career spanning more than two decades and is widely considered an innovator in the field.
