has your dentist commited suicide?!

No. Mine makes an absolute killing off our family though. Swear that if it wasn't for us he'd have to sell the Porsche or the boat.


The cheeky git has a habit of being ill when it's a nice sunny day... because he'd rather go down the golf club :mad:.
 
PMKeates said:
No, but my GP did. He hung himself in the surgery one night. Was a very nice guy and the GP for most of my family for years. He was accused of sexual assault by some chav and seemingly couldn't cope with the pressure.
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This isn't the first time this has happened, and not just in this profession.

Seems to be a trend of people accusing this sort of crime falsely. For some sort of financial gain? I don't know and I don't care its ficking suck (see what I did there?
 
Greebo said:
Good money and short working hours.

Average NHS dentist earns £131,000 per annum (2008/2009 figures). With over 400 earning over £300,000 per annum



Nor bad for 5 years studying. I can think of worse degrees to study. Starting slary out of Uni is £29,800 for your first year probation in practice.
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I don't understand the figures.
The earning figures, is that gross fees, or is that actual earnings That they are paying tax on?
Seems significantly higher than here.
I get paid for what i do, so say i do treatments amounting to 500 in a day, the lab fees are deducted, and then the principle takes his chunk, usually fifty or more percent.
Leaving lets say 500 - 100, then /2, 200 which is my take home on which i pay 40percent tax.
Is the figures claimng what i earned stating the 500 or the 200 actual?

Love to know, as if accurate, the 'average nhs dentist' in england is earning double the northern ireland average for the exact same work, if anything we have worse mouths to treat.
Surprising.
 
Greebo said:
Nor bad for 5 years studying. I can think of worse degrees to study. Starting slary out of Uni is £29,800 for your first year probation in practice.
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You have to admire the person who, at the age of 18 or so, decides to have a fairly dull job for life, but on great working terms in exchange. If I had my time again I would forget this law nonsense and be in there like a shot. Can't understand why they would have higher suicide rates.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
I don't understand the figures.
The earning figures, is that gross fees, or is that actual earnings That they are paying tax on?
Seems significantly higher than here.
I get paid for what i do, so say i do treatments amounting to 500 in a day, the lab fees are deducted, and then the principle takes his chunk, usually fifty or more percent.
Leaving lets say 500 - 100, then /2, 200 which is my take home on which i pay 40percent tax.
Is the figures claimng what i earned stating the 500 or the 200 actual?

Love to know, as if accurate, the 'average nhs dentist' in england is earning double the northern ireland average for the exact same work, if anything we have worse mouths to treat.
Surprising.
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Not sure. I goggled the info from:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...-dentists-earning-over-pound-300000-a-year.do

To be fair on closing looking it's gross income:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/aug/04/dentists-earnings-income

Average gross taxable income after expenses is £89,062 which is still not bad.

But those with a contract with primary car services to provide NHS care earn £126,807 on average after expenses and before tax.

Those without an NHS contract only average £65,697 on their tax return.

Full report here: http://www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentalearnexp0809

So which ever way you look it at, you with your £50,000 per annum seem to be well underpaid compared to England and Wales.

Fancy moving? :D

EDIT: Just out of interest, is the principal the head dentist who owns the practice? So if he takes 50% and has say 3 dentists working for him he would get £150,000 from those three plus his £100,000? Nice.
 
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cm1179 said:
but that isn't a static for a persons profession
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True. ANd I don;t know why I lobbed that in....

ANyway, it doesn't distract from the fact that Dentists are not the highest suicide profession and has always been an Urban myth.

Doctors and nurses you can understand from all the stress.

Dentist who work an average of 37 hours per week and earn £100,000, I just can't really see why they would have a higher suicide rate than normal people.

The job doesn't look that stressful tbh and the pay is good. I can see the odd one been accused of sexually molesting somebody or a bad dentist who has loads of cases filed against them for bad treatment might want to top themselves but that's it.
 
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