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Where is "dentist" on the oppression grievance pyramid
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Date: May 30th, 2025 2:40 PM Author: histrionic opaque kitchen goal in life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48974078) |
Date: May 30th, 2025 2:45 PM Author: Pungent Church Friendly Grandma i would envision that dentists are some of the scummiest "doctors" out there since many people view this as an elective process. they're primary source of income is probably upselling procedures to to the people who come in regularly for cleanings and absolutely capitalizing on anyone who is coming in for some sort of dental emergency (like lost a crown or even a filling) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48974092) |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 2:48 PM Author: Irate Balding Station Pisswyrm the dentist :: md differential too large so it kind of justify their bad behaviour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48974096) |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 2:49 PM Author: histrionic opaque kitchen goal in life you assume wrongly that all dentists are scummy back alley "cosmetic dentistry" filling hawkers and ignore the great portion of dentists that hold true to their code as Knights of the Tooth maybe it takes some shopping around but eventually you will find one who lays out his markup plainly and without trickery on the office's bills and this will change your opinion of the humble dentist very quickly endodontists however are definitely of the sorts to grift and wheedle their patients should they come in for an emergency root canal or shattered bicuspid. i have yet to meet a honest endodontist in my many decades of going to the dentist |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 3:07 PM Author: deep gas station dragon Knights of the Tooth tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48974153) |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 3:09 PM Author: Pungent Church Friendly Grandma its an assumption but i doubt its wrong. even you concede you have to shop around to avoid it. I actually had 180 dentist who just retired and I kept him for 20 years even though I moved far far away because i went to some other quack who was a dick and definitely was trying to upsell me
as a kid i assumed all experts were actually experts not snakecharmers. that illusion is far gone. i dont trust any of these people anymore after seeing lawyers in action |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 3:14 PM Author: histrionic opaque kitchen goal in life dentists actually do Tooth Engineering and have more mechanical expertise than many doctors tbh. if you look at the actual work involved in a root canal or tooth reconstruction you start to wonder why they get paid less and have less prestige than many other medical specialties a good dentist is like a good barber and very hard to replace once they're gone |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 3:16 PM Author: razzmatazz scourge upon the earth idiot I don't think endodontists make less than the average surgeon. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48974171) |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 6:57 PM Author: At-the-ready Double Fault Fanboi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48974948) |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 9:34 PM Author: Laughsome Puce Cumskin loled irl at "Knights of the Tooth" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48975376) |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 2:49 PM Author: plum theatre i know some good honest ones, and they're rich af, work or worked great hours, but are still miserable with their career choice and grass is greener, wish they had done something else. feels empty to them, nobody is happy to go to the dentist, sometimes they get patients who are in pain and blame the doctor for either their bad health or the procedure needed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48974100) |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 2:52 PM Author: histrionic opaque kitchen goal in life the medical practice in general is extremely thankless and now generally underpaid due to insurance company and practice corporations squeezing the people who actually do the important work in the field dentists seem to get it especially bad as insurance companies seem extremely stingy about matters of the jaw |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 3:18 PM Author: thirsty new version aren't they forced to engage in fraud to be truly profitable?
unnecessary X-rays, unnecessary wisdom tooth removals, etc.? |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 3:18 PM Author: razzmatazz scourge upon the earth idiot I don't know why that's necessary when there's no shortage of people with legitimate tooth problems. I've also never seen a dentist upcharge for an x-ray (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48974181) |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 3:29 PM Author: histrionic opaque kitchen goal in life probably not the case in high traffic areas out in the sticks? maybe |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: plum theatre they still make great money even without tricks, but i mean yes, you're right of course that the margins get fatter if you do all the dirty monetization tricks, which is why PE is rolling up all the dental practices. i'm not an anti-PE guy, but in medicine and certain industries, it doesn't feel right to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48974355) |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 4:31 PM Author: histrionic opaque kitchen goal in life it's bad. these PE firms need to be stopped before we're all serfs on the blackrock plantation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48974510) |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 6:16 PM Author: razzmatazz scourge upon the earth idiot It's the only way to make healthcare affordable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48974810) |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 3:15 PM Author: razzmatazz scourge upon the earth idiot They are some of the best people I know. We had one who was a close family friend, and he treated everyone in my family for free. He ran his own clinic with no support staff and had Rush Limbaugh on blast through the loudspeaker whenever he was in the office.
I've since come to know a very good Korean-American dentist who is super geeky about everything. We talk about materials science and lasers and shit when I see him. He's also funny as fuck. Like an uber-confident nyuug who makes a killing doing work he enjoys. |
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Date: May 30th, 2025 9:33 PM Author: plum theatre i had a lady korean-american dentist who would hum classical music while looking at my mouth, was 180. i appreciate a nerd in my drs/dentists as well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731402&forum_id=2...id.#48975371) |