I've been doing some informal research on "crazy dentists."

Here are two interesting web links:

http://www.jaronbs.com/dad.htm

A short account by a person whose father was a “crazy” dentist who eventually killed himself.




http://marigayle.blogspot.com/search/label/Dental%20Stories

A dental assistant’s recent blog about working with a crazy dentist:

Here’s an excerpt:

"Okay, as I've said [...] Dr has been having some crazy mood swings lately. Click on "dental stories" category for a full overview. Well, Monday, we had a meeting. As you will recall, the last meeting did not go so well. Monday's meeting, however, went very well. In fact, he apologized, kind of, for the previous week. He said he didn't remember hurting my feelings but that he didn't mean to-he was just trying to make me stretch. Well, not remembering that you hurt someone's feelings is a reflection of your personality, if you ask me...

I was going to post that things were going well again, but I'm glad I didn't because he was worse than EVER on Wednesday.

Let me give you a little background. I have only been a dental assistant for about a year. This Dr is the only one that I've worked for other than my internship (she was a crazy crazy dentist!). When I first interviewed with Dr, I told him that I wanted to work in the back of the office-you know, hands-on, but that I hadn't had much experience. He hired me on the pretense that I would start off in the front-paperwork, insurance info etc. and then he would train me to be in the back. Perfect."


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Where are all the other mercury-crazy dentists? They have got to be out there. If data could be obtained, maybe the federal healthcare adminsitrations and the new generation of
not-yet-poisoned dentists would respond! Many new dentists have already responded: by opening wholistic, mercury-free practices... and someone told me today that most dentists apparently rarely use mercury-amalgam these days... i don't know if that's true, though--it's news to me.

ordinary person

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