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(UK) Dental System 'Failing Patients'
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| 7/2/08
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Posted on 07/02/2008 11:57:46 AM PDT by pissant
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To: Huntress
Yuck! And looks like she has small wings attached to her eyelids.
To: pissant
I like a good joke as much as the next guy, but this is just too easy.
22
posted on
07/02/2008 12:45:21 PM PDT
by
gorush
(Exterminate the Moops!)
To: Huntress
Amy Winehouse is just...wrong on so many levels.
To: Huntress
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:48:08 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: Huntress
Must use a spoon to apply that eyeliner......
nice!
To: Petronski
I think this article must refer to the NHS dental referral system. Private dentists get paid by what they do, and it seems competitive enough.
To: Petronski
Yikes. Glad they got to you in time.
I had extensive dental work done last summer. Two root canals.
Luckily for me I had Delta Dental and it covered most of the work.
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posted on
07/02/2008 12:52:32 PM PDT
by
mware
To: pissant
A dis-incentive to work? Fabulous!
28
posted on
07/02/2008 12:54:02 PM PDT
by
libs_kma
(The land of the free, because of the brave)
To: SargeK
Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense to me, with my limited knowledge of medicine.
29
posted on
07/02/2008 12:54:37 PM PDT
by
mware
To: mware
Luckily we had good insurance. I have seen the bill the insurance paid and was unable to say the number out loud.
Still can’t.
Job 1 for 2008: avoid near-death crises. So far so good.
30
posted on
07/02/2008 12:57:59 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
To: SargeK
![](http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070925/070925_house_vlg_7p.widec.jpg)
It's not the infection per se,
its that the infection stimulates
clotting factors causing thrombocytosis.
The excess platelets clot up
and cause the coronary.
31
posted on
07/02/2008 1:00:59 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
To: mware
I guess I don’t understand the cause and effect here. I am paid a salary (fixed income) and thus I don’t charge my employer by the case. I am expected to deal with my case load high days and low days. So am I to believe doctors get a pass on doing their job because they are paid a salary rather than per dental task? Maybe the system makes their job a little too secure.
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posted on
07/02/2008 1:01:55 PM PDT
by
DonaldC
To: pissant
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posted on
07/02/2008 1:04:08 PM PDT
by
whd23
To: DonaldC
Donald, regarding my post, (BBC documentary on worst teeth in Britain ) the woman with the dentist phobia was one of the worst cases I have ever seen.
They were not clear if this was with the NHS or a dentist practicing privately.
Whatever the case was, they said at the end of the program that there was a two year waiting period for those needed to go through general anesthesia.
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posted on
07/02/2008 1:09:19 PM PDT
by
mware
To: pissant
Changes in the way dentists are paid mean they effectively have no financial incentive to give appropriate treatment Wow, so they've finally gotten around to printing why socialism/communism doesn't work!
People wont work for FREE!!! (aka slavery)
Congrats Sky News for finally acknowledging something well known to non zombie voters!
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posted on
07/02/2008 1:10:32 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
("If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back" -Homers guide to drinking in Springfield)
To: Petronski
My dental insurance maxes out at 2 K a year.
I arrange to get all my dental work done, in Nov/Dec, just in case I need to have more extensive work.
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posted on
07/02/2008 1:11:59 PM PDT
by
mware
To: Petronski
regarding post 31.
Now that is funny.
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posted on
07/02/2008 1:13:14 PM PDT
by
mware
To: pissant
Diff if what wiww happen if we evaw get Hiwwarwff’f heawph care.
38
posted on
07/02/2008 1:21:55 PM PDT
by
woollyone
(100 rounds per week totals over 5000 rounds in a year. Just thought you'd want to know.)
To: mware
My problem was covered under medical, not dental.
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posted on
07/02/2008 1:23:00 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
To: apocalypto
She actually looked OK before she started using drugs, lost weight, and got the batwing eyeliner, the tattoos, and the beehive.
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posted on
07/02/2008 3:02:31 PM PDT
by
Huntress
(Ivy League Prole)
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