#152- You Can’t Handle the Tooth! Gary Monaghan

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.