has your dentist commited suicide?!
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I would guess
1) paid too much = nothing to strive for
2) boring job once you have done it for a while (guessing)
3) inteligent peson stuck in a same every day job
4) a limit to how much you can earn no matter how driven you are its not like a brillian sales person that can strive to sell 2x as much next year..
5) a limit to inovation I would guess (or maybe there are pioneering dentists, or dentists that stream line their procedures so as to reat 4x as many people in the same time)
1, 2, 4, 5 would not necessarly be an issue without point 3.... (im guessing)
Yes (assuming the practice isn't owned by a company as many are now) .. but don't forget that out of that the practice owner will have to pay for the building, the nurses, the receptionists etc etc. They will also either need to pay a pratice manager, or else manage the practice themselves, effectively working 2 full time jobs simultaneously.
I supposed they just can't handle the fact that the tooth hurts.
......I'll get my coat.
Haha, took me a while but brava, sir, brava!
I can believe the vet/doctor thing. Watching animals/people die can't be easy. But then watching them recover is surely rewarding?
I haven't seen a dentist in about 10 or so years. I can't even remember him, apart from him puting some numbing cream on my hand and telling me not to eat it.
Problem is with Doctors and Vets is that although its great all those days making your patients better, there are lots of days where despite doing your best, the patient dies.
My gf is a vet and there have been many nights where she has cried all night over the death of an animal that day - especially if she had to inject/shoot it to put it out of it's misery (she is an equine vet) and she gets equally upset at some of the neglect/abuse cases she has to deal with which have ended up with the animal being put down purely because it's owner did not look after it.
Some clients can be abusive and nasty which doesn't help.
Then she gets the eternal "Could I have done something different to save the animal? What if it's me at fault? What if I am a just a bad vet?" and all that self doubt starts.
This is the bit which confuses me. Can somebody explain why it's stressful?
Well mostly from performing surgery everyday, but also long shifts with very tight time tables to see patients and putting up with people (particularly parents) who don't listen and refuse to admit they are taking poor care of their teeth to the extent they get angry and annoyed.
Working in a hospital then and not a high street practice? If so I would imagine that being almost as stressful as a doctor/nurse.
High street dentists only work 37 hours so they get the easy life.
My dentist is a very miserable man. You can tell he really hates the job and is worn out from working so much.
It's just such a mundane job. People don't really take in what you tell them and then they come next year complaining that their teeth are falling apart. Very busy schedules and all that. Often I have to wait 30-40 minutes in the chair while he finishes on someone else first. And it only takes about 15 minutes to get it done
Still, he has owned it and worked there for the last 30 years so something must be okay
I could never be a dentist. If I ever was I would never eat again. (I guess that's why they are all so skinny!)
It's just such a mundane job. People don't really take in what you tell them and then they come next year complaining that their teeth are falling apart. Very busy schedules and all that. Often I have to wait 30-40 minutes in the chair while he finishes on someone else first. And it only takes about 15 minutes to get it done
Still, he has owned it and worked there for the last 30 years so something must be okay
I could never be a dentist. If I ever was I would never eat again. (I guess that's why they are all so skinny!)