{"id":557,"date":"2010-10-21T00:19:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T05:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drscottconsulting.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:18:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:18:50","slug":"dont-forget-to-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drscottconsulting.com\/dont-forget-to-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh…And Don’t Forget to CARE!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tWhen people (like Judson) tell me, "I HATE DENTISTS<\/em><\/strong>", it makes me curious; there must be a good reason. What concerned me was why<\/strong> Judson used those three words….<\/p>\n I went to one of my favorite restaurants to grab a bite to eat night before last and watch the start of the Texas Rangers wooping up on the Yankees in game 4 of the ALCS. I sat up at the bar in front of the big screen and the waitress, Carey, speaks loud enough for the fellow next to me to hear, "Dr. Scott…one of your patients came in the other day<\/em>". <\/p>\n \tThe reason I told you that is because the conversations that occurred after that is the REAL reason for this post! <\/p>\n \tJudson, the gentleman sitting a few chairs to my left overheard Carey addressing me, leans over and asks, "what kind of doctor are you<\/em>?" "A dentist" I said. And then those famous words came out of his mouth, "I hate dentists<\/strong>" ! I smiled, as I usually do, and I asked Judson WHY? He went on to confess that he's a "wimp" and the last 5 dentists that he'd been to just sloughed him off when he told them that he was "Scared to death<\/strong><\/em>" of dentists. He said the common response he received from those dentists was: "Oh….you'll be fine<\/em>" or "Ahhh…this is easy<\/em>"……..and I interrupted him so I could finish the sentence for him,… "and they didn't offer you anything to address the anxiety you expressed<\/em>: no nitrous oxide gas or pills to sedate you for your expressed fear<\/em>?" He said, "no, they didn't offer anything and that is what bothers me<\/em>".<\/p>\n