Who Protects the Common Folks?

If you “cure” a patient you have eliminated a portion of your cash flow.

It took awhile before I realized that the several dentists I hired over the years were not curing my periodontal disease…. they were merely using a “bandage approach” to keep me coming back over and over and over.

Eventually I was in an area with a dental school where students worked on me. Sadly, it was too late, I lost some teeth but, for the first time, my condition actually improved.

The profit motive was missing at that school compared to the for-profit private practice dentists I used previously.

I talked to the president of that dental school and told him of my belief. He stated that dental schools attempt to convey to their students a sense of morality but that the dental profession’s leadership was aware of “certain problems” and tried to limit dentists taking advantage of patients by turning patients into a long-term profit source by avoiding curing problems.

Yeah… right. Strenuous efforts, I am sure. BS!!!!!!

The American Dental Association (ADA) is akin to the lawyer’s Bar and the American Medical Association. Self-policing agencies, akin to the guilds of old, that are woefully lacking in any concern for their cash cows…. the general public.

It appears to me that maximizing revenue and keeping their self-policing stranglehold on their trade is the prime goal.

If the common folks try to grab a little power to improve their lot in life, via unions for most of us…… the propaganda machine works full-time to make unions appear BAD and the elites are quick to attack unions….. those pesky uppity commoners trying to emulate their betters… the AMA, ADA, etc. etc.

Look how President Reagen destroyed the air traffic controller’s union.

Well, where are the efforts by the elites or their lackeys (politicians, bureaucracies, etc) to control the upper-crust’s “unions” (that’s basically what the AMA, ADA, etc. are…unions) and the many abuses they inflict upon the people?

It is VERY difficult to prove a case against a doc or dentist. Just try to find a doc or dentist who will testify that, in his/her expert opinion a dentist purposefully limited treatment to ensure you had to continuously return, paying $700 each visit, four times per year, year after year, without doing all that could be done to solve the problem once and for all.

Well, there ARE expert witnesses you can hire, usually via a lawyer, a very costly lawyer, to testify at a trial, a very costly in time and money to you lawyer and trial, that the majority of Americans can not afford to engage in. At the dollar level involved, good luck trying to find a lawyer to take your case. Oh, sure, fork over $10,000 cash to START the litigation but be prepared to cough up more later….. for a case that will assuredly, even if you win, return to you far less than the trial’s cost.

Even if you are awarded lawyer’s fees there is no guarentee you will win and most folks can’t cough up the funds anyway.

Doctors, dentists, etc. know they are basically immune being “called to task” for their abuses!!!!!!

Sure…there are honest moral dentists, docs, etc. BUT…. since entering adult life…. I do not believe I have encountered even ONE honest dentist… other than those students whose reward for their performance was a grade, not money.

Be aware, folks. Propaganda and indoctrination has resulted in many Americans placing docs and dentists (and other professions) upon a proverbial pedestal.

But, I am convinced that too many atop those mental pedestals are unworthy of being there.

As an aside…. after 9 years of constantly fighting cancer, though I am unable to prove it but I did read up on the condition constantly…… I am convinced that several of the doctors treating my Mother’s condition used methods to maximize their income… using chemotherapy methods, dosages, etc. that research indicated were less effective than other treatment types.

I tried to inform Mom but…… she was well-indoctrinated in youth. Doctors are atop pedestals. And, what was more important to her… was that the doctor was “nice” and that he or she “cared” about her.

Would Mom have died anyway? Eventually. We all die some day. But, the effects of years of chemo were Hell-on-Earth. And… the exorbitant costs… some treatments were $6,000 per dose, twice weekly, month after month… AND, constant MRIs… very expensive… well, the taxpayer and YOU via your health insurance coats, paid for it all. And… remember, it is typical for doctors to get a “cut of the money” from drugs, treatments, MRIs, etc they prescribe. Deals are worked out, etc. etc.

And, what I found interesting…. one doctor prescribed many more MRI scans than the other doctors… and as I learned later, that doctor, along with several others docs, owned the facility where the MRIs were done.

Sigh…………………

Follow the money trail, folks. Too many of us pay such a HIGH cost and much loss while those playing the “system” amass such enormous amounts of wealth at we, the people’s expense.