Paul Chernoff on Nostr: Dentists being treated differently from doctors when it comes to insurance and govt ...
Dentists being treated differently from doctors when it comes to insurance and govt programs probably has more to do with accident than any deliberate policy.
But our attitudes can be strange. My father-in-law was a rural dentist staring in 1961. I would hear the stories of people refusing routine care and then calling him at midnight at home wanting a tooth pooled. No interest in saving the tooth. I don't know if it was a cost thing since my FIL was occasionally paid in chickens.
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