Because they can. Why am I dissing my dental colleagues? Because I can. Perhaps, this is a simple case of Dental Envy, since their profession remains within secure borders far beyond the health care reform line of fire. Consider these dental incidentals: • Not a syllable in the ~2000 page health care reform law that affects dentists. Every filling is still worth its weight in gold. • Dentists recover every dime they bill. If their fee is a gazillion dollars, and your generous dental insurance, covers fifty bucks, guess what? There will be a very large cavity in your bank account. • No middle of the night runs to the emergency room, a drill that we physicians endure • No hospital work, which for many physicians has become an inefficient hassle which became the root of a new medical specialty • Dentists don’t need an attorney on retainer , or caps on non-economic damages, as their malpractice situation is calm. • We still call them, ‘doctor’. Dentists prescribe prophyla
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