Posted on 07/18/2003 8:06:37 PM PDT by UnklGene
The 1986 musical remake of Little Shop of Horrors.
However, the REAL classic is the original 1960 (non-musical) version. Jack Nicholson played a sadistic patient who got his thrills from pain, and demanded no novacaine ("Oh my God! Don't stop now!!!!").
Another movie with a sadistic dentist would be Marathon Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier as the Nazi/Dentist who tortures him.
I'm not talking about sympathy for an unpaid bill.
A friend who happens to be a doctor, told me about hip replacements in the elderly and a young doctor with integrity. Here's the story.
There are several type of hip replacement equipment. Some of it is guaranteed for 30 years, some for 15. Doctors in this city were putting the much more expensive 30 year equipment in 90 year old nursing home patients and raking in the cash. The young doctor with integrity was laughed at for years until he gave in and joined the rip off doctors.
That's it? I can't believe he got away with it. What he did is quite serious and could be called terrorism. A doctor is quite powerful as there is significant asymmetry of information in the industry. There is a lot of room for doctors to perform unnecessary procedures and charge the person when the patient thinks that insurance will pay for the procedure. To violate that trust is quite scary.
A friend who happens to be a doctor, told me about hip replacements in the elderly and a young doctor with integrity. Here's the story.
There are several type of hip replacement equipment. Some of it is guaranteed for 30 years, some for 15. Doctors in this city were putting the much more expensive 30 year equipment in 90 year old nursing home patients and raking in the cash. The young doctor with integrity was laughed at for years until he gave in and joined the rip off doctors.
That's it? I can't believe he got away with it. What he did is quite serious and could be called terrorism. A doctor is quite powerful as there is significant asymmetry of information in the industry. There is a lot of room for doctors to perform unnecessary procedures and charge the person when the patient thinks that insurance will pay for the procedure. To violate that trust is quite scary.
She's going to Pavarotti concerts.
At the Royal Opera House.
And she won't pay her dentist -- a man she permits inside her mouth with sharp, mechanized implements -- a lousy $60 Pounds.
I'm sure the dentist's conduct is ethically inexcusable and all that, but methinks "Mrs.B" is a few cards short of a deck herself.
Lots of rocket scientists in this news story, lemme tell ya.
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