Why dont Dentist adhere to the hypocratic oath like medical doctors, people need dental care as badly as med?

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

I live in the Chicago suburbs, the dentists here mostly are not compassionate and do not offer help to poor or indigent people.I even have medicaid and cant find a Dentist to do the work from a root canal i had to fight for. I cant get a crown. The information to go to Dental schools is false. teh Univ of Chicago Dental school wanted $865.00 for a molar crown. That was as much as ANY DENTIST IN THE WHOLE CHICAGO AREA. We cannot take care of our own dental issues , and it seems that dentists are in a monopoly with services, price and wont break away to help others who cant afford regular services. Peacheswrites@yahoo.com I ask you to contact me if you are a dentist or make crowns. Thank you
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Let me preface this editorial by saying that I do charity care, but I pick and choose for myself who gets it and how much they get. Many dentists do the same. You know, I took an oath to do no harm and to try my best to help people. I don't remember the part about doing it for free. It is my duty to remain available to my community to provide needed health services. If I were to do it for free, several things would happen. 1. I would have to work 24/7 to serve everyone who thought their story was worse than the next guy. 2. I would not be able to pay any staff to help me provide the excellent level of care than even the charity cases deserve and demand. 3. I would not be able to purchase supplies or pay lab bills for services needed to serve my patients. 4. I would not be able to pay the electric company, the water bill, the mortgage for my building, yada, yada, yada, to remain available to my patients. I was a bit surprised to read someone's message about "all you people" looking for free care, but in my heart I admit that I agree. I may be wrong, but anyone who even KNOWS ABOUT THE INTERNET, let alone has a computer to go there, does not know the true level of poverty of some of the patients that we all treat for free.
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