MobileMashDentistry2017
Introduction/Definition/etc
Mission Of Mercy, partially funded by the Governor,
and increased the bill to the next year, at $100k/year
bringing affordable/free dentists to the NVCC
Medical Education Campus, in Springfield, VA...
Body
Enlisting
Required referral, which the outreach office
didn't want to give me and attacked again there,
have to sit in a chair, while she does paperwork
and people attack me from behind, on the phone,
being security, supervisors, take your torture like a
man to have something to eat, get teeth fixed,
roof over your head, whatever...
The norm for the location, instead of the exception...
Finding out later, there is a built in photo release,
but not liking it, and not seeing it until later,
here sign this signature block but not seeing what
I'm signing, as disjointed, she looks at the screen
I just do what I'm told, or there is a problem,
and more attacks by security, bosses, gangs, etc...
I normally cross those things out, reasonable
accommodation so that I can participate, and/or
a security concern, not sure which weighs
more...
So questioned and attacked,
how would I get there?
we will take the bike,
and other gang like threats,
harassment, and basically sadistic
torture...
Lookup the Event
Finding online the manual for creating the event,
takes about $50k to run one of those and a budget
item is paying security, police basically to deal
with the poor... Got to flog the poor people,
bring back/ roll back the dogs and hoses,
we have the civil rights all over again...
More poor people than we can handle
must need more force to do that...
Up to 500 people expected at some of those,
and 250 volunteers... Lunch provided
for volunteers, maybe it's their midterms/
finals, and extra credit, do community
service type stuff... Looks good on a
resume transcript/ practicum
to have volunteer and charity, shows you
are more caring and helpful than just
mercenary medical/ dental/ vultures,
idealistic do gooders, forcing your religion/
beliefs on others, etc...
Temper reality with faith?
Faith with Reality?
It would take the Faith of a Saint to deal
with The Poor?
Mother Teresa, next feet up to wash,
for 12 hour day(s)...
Some Background
I was rather stressed about going to it,
what to expect, given Howard University,
UMD Baltimore Advanced Dental,
and VCU Dental school students,
much of their playing God with
egos and instruments of torture,
in other circumstances, not to mention
the bills... We need more to finish,
sign this estimate, it's exploratory,
overselling Endo? Playing the hero
to save a tooth, poor people should
just extract, and get it over with...
They many times don't even look
at it, and on the phone, you want
an extraction? No, I want to keep
the tooth, and they haven't even looked
at the tooth to see the problem,
just a hammer looking for nails...
In my coffin/ cross/ wallet...
I fell out of a regular paid dentist by
not being able to afford the care
at a private dentist's office,
and dental schools clinics charge
about 30-40% less...
They don't say much about extra visits,
treatment plans, how long you will
have to wait, while they check with
teachers, learning estimating costs,
and completing on time is apparently
an advanced lab/clinical feature of
people who have done it many times
before and know what they are doing...
Doing it well and quickly, like the
Dremel (rotary tool) arts and crafts people,
on human mouths: Bondo! Stat!,
Coming up, Aye Aye Captain...
More metal for that mouth, make him Jaws,
some people mentioning they wake up
with a mouth full of metal, basically MS13 like
gang teeth, because they were in the
wrong chair at the wrong time...
Or people losing gold and/or silver fillings
waking up with holes in their teeth,
unexplained... Must have drugged people
under, stolen the metal, and left the person
for dead... ? Probably sexually assaulted too,
given HIV, etc... Kind of like Date Rape
for the Professional/ body snatchers/
Disappeared set...
Dental cleanings (hygienists, assistants, etc)
and Lesser God type stuff take less skill and
equipment, so the techs can learn at say
community colleges like NVCC...
I had been to Springfield M.E.C. say a decade
or more before for those cleanings/ x-rays,
and wondered if they could compare my
records/ x-rays coming from that into the
free event with the dental school clinics
of today, kind of a personal longitudinal study
and figure out if there was damage done
deliberately by students enjoying hurting
patients, for sadistic and/or
other (t)reasons like he doesn't floss,
and we don't like him, he smells,
doesn't he know the guy who shot up
Tech, I had a friend who when there,
and other implying we are hostile,
you are not wanted/ welcome/ etc...
Classism and discrimination in
socialite practice...
Days' Prep
So up at 4 am, went down at dusk,
some sleep, worried about canceling,
several people probably pushing me to,
and transportation, stalking, etc reasons
to be really careful, they said ahead
besides their test to eliminate
was can you walk a mile?
(sounds like in someone else's shoes,
more biblical, than anything else),
wheel chair people generally don't walk,
sometimes they roll, and if your feet
were run over by a Metro Access sent taxi,
you'd have to...
We only work on one tooth, and not sure,
since I can't see in my own mouth
very well, x-rays and second opinions
are for other people, basically rich people
relative to Area Median Income (AMI)...
Heroic stuff like trying to save a broken tooth,
I've had parts of my teeth falling out,
hard slivers that probably weren't glass shards,
as not clear, nor really glass,
(people have threatened me with glass in my food)
whether it is temporaries going too long,
and/or the tooth collapsing, not sure,
Endo (root canal) was done, and maybe
over prescribed, the caps / partials crowns
were not added, as maybe the student
drilled extra holes in my teeth, to make sure
I didn't return, can't complete the assignment,
blame it on the patient, easier to get
rid of the patient, than fix what you were assigned,
while saying he was dating my wife/girlfriend,
threats against the motorcycle, he wanted one,
cared more about money than the patient,
not much oversight, busy dental teacher,
spread across many patients, supposedly
advocacy black shirt people (other shirt colours
said years of the students and roles of the staff)
for the patients, and no real advocates
allowed in the cramped student workstation/
dental chair areas...
So all witnesses are the schools,
we are the state, and get whatever information
about you we want, no real Protection
and Advocacy that I can tell, and limited
oversight, checks and balances, the
teacher stopped checking my mouth
after treatment and turnover of the
instructors spanning many visits
over many months to a year?,
some were friendly, some male,
some female, the most friendly
was the endo woman,
and we worked out some things of
since I was staring at florescent lights
for hours in the chair, maybe wear sun
glasses, and while the sound of a drill
may not bother some people, it could be
like nails on a chalk board to others,
so headphones, and playing music
sometimes calms people, and since
the chairs are terrible, low end student
chairs and he would twist my neck,
to his advantage to get a good angle,
and it hurt so bad, bring a pillow or
roll up a towel for a neck brace/
pad/pillow...
Police Escorted Arrival?
Well, police at the local garage entrance,
and I can't bring in the bicycle, really
my wheelchair, am I going to make a fuss about it?
How about near registration where I can keep
an eye on it helps, but usually bicycles are parked
near the handicapped at entrances.
Motorcycle parking exists,
we are police you dress like us but are not us,
though some say I'm deputized with no specific
duties, and crimes against me double or triple
the charges, keeping gangs and others
(possibly overzealous hunting Republican NRA
police officers?) at bay, and/or making me
more of a target, because if being deported
to death elsewhere anyways, why not do
as much damage on the way out?
Not that that is very reasonable,
to the victim, but in gang and other terror
(including domestic) rationale, it might...
I take a lot of my normal stuff off and carry it in,
wishing I had brought a wheelie type luggage
cart with me, but the added weight of a cart
might have been a problem, packing for
a day out without trailer, and folding bike
which normally can go in places
as luggage, reasonable accommodations,
and barriers to participation, access to care
and Olmstead Supreme Court Decision
like Brown v. Board of Education and wondering
how many state troopers (read national guard)
it's going to take to get some people through
the system (into schools), not wanting to change,
fully...
Thoughts of showering on site, pools and
gyms at some larger schools, shelter in place
and showers in some newer building
bathrooms plus I was busy packing layers
of clothes, so maybe bike in shorts,
and add (put on) dry clothes at the end,
there were iced up puddles, the few I saw,
and a winter storm predicted for Monday
Night, the 13th... (Mathew, on now)
Arrive by 9.30 am, or so for a 10 am start,
appointment by a Case Worker/ Manager
(I don't feel like a case, I think of myself
as human, and haven't accepted the usual
hierarchical mentality we were trying to change...
more survivor than consumer/ expatient
as an employment based group,
related to food, really a business they are
malingerers type problem, of what to do
with the people who can't work, and forcing
all sorts of information, breaking others'
confidences and spirits/wills, steam
rolling people for basic needs like food, shelter,
health care, etc... Add some ridicule, really
it's we are helping you and you are resistant/
non compliant, a problem, we have to solve
by getting rid of you... We want you gone...
Get out of my state type stuff...
While really trying to eliminate
people from the welfare rolls, see they
can work, make them wait for hours for
$30 / week of mostly spoiled expired
or questionable food (bread was dated
February in March, and November this week),
dented cans, repacked stuff unlabeled,
stalked and harassed for the enjoyment of staff,
gangs, law enforcement, etc)
and while they are waiting, observe/ study/document
them as liars, ask how they are
(disabled may not know, emotions, and
questions/ prodded by an abuser,
in public with gangs and other nosy
people around, gobbling up your personal
information for further exploitation...)
Same Hijabi Abuser Again
Registration desk, and one abuser there,
grinning, and enjoying what may be ahead,
she didn't want me there, and said it was full/
closed the office, when I had waited,
probably trying to leave for lunch, (a common
excuse, others would stagger the staff schedule,)
maybe causing the attack, another worker
took me in, sit here, grinning, back to others
(like the rental office attacks) and another
attack ensued, but did the paperwork,
questioned randomly very personally
by strangers, and likely exploitively...
Second Station, Run the Maze
Where to go next, no general map of the
event, just signs on where to park,
so really just for people who can afford
cars, not really poor people...
No bus routes mentioned, but rail and
a map that you could not walk from, afaict...
Clearly the organizers don't take buses,
routes would be nearby, lookup those,
and find they have no routes running
(Metro route planning: you can't get there
from here, no route found, or similar error...)
early Saturday morning to make the timed start,
Weekday, Friday, maybe, but not the appointed
time/day... Might even be the school's
Spring Break, idk... Medical and maybe dental
run a different schedule, but this is hosted at
a Community College...
An additional form, fill out the top,
Name, medications, allergies, last medical
visit, when?, do you have a doctor? etc.
Tried to force us in a class room,
but I wanted to stay in the hall,
I had bags and someone
quickly came up, didn't like my camera,
am I taking pictures? You can?
I hope not, checking if it was left on...
Thinking maybe someone complained...
Privacy rules, etc... IDK. I hope I 'm not,
but the event probably has press type photos,
and the website will have manufactured
success stories, but not the reality for some,
disABLED, REALLY POOR, Etc...
Classism, and it was a joke that people like
us were there, it seemed, relatively affluent
students, many minorities, but so many,
that it seemed I was the minority instead...
Ableism, we are allied health care students,
named printed badges, coloured shirts,
green (directed?), red (security?),
and blue (medical?), mostly,
maybe some others...
Get a number after the second station,
waiting for 161 to be called, already going
heavy today, to be at that high a number
by 9.45 am, or whenever... No timestamps
on anything, that I saw... I was a little
lost getting there, thinking the INoVA
HealthPlex was it, but down south a little
more, thinking I could cut through, something
in back, but train and MetroRail lines in the way,
likely not double sided exit on that station
like a lot of Metro Rails, go further west,
duplicating effort, and around the fenced up
Federally secured GSA building
and discovered a pedestrian and bicycle
ramp over Interstate 395, try it sometime?
I had stuff I wanted over there, but no real
money, already short, and waiting on the 8th
or so again... But it would save trips,
maybe on the way back, idk...
Medically Clear?
Blood pressure check manually, pump up,
do the old fashioned way, they get lots of
practice & probably sore forearms...
I'm told I can't talk while they take blood pressure,
I discover it doesn't affect my BP,
but they need to hear the faint blood flow
sounds to get readings...
Triage nurse questions how I filled out the form,
wants people to take meds,
not knowing that after 10 years of trying
and dry mouth, etc, maybe it doesn't work for
everyone, but she is medical model,
probably doesn't suffer from Psych
just Compliance and nasty, but ordered
to accept me, afaict... Someone's in the
background pushing me thru... Like
lemmings to the slaughter?...
Dental Chairs and Stuff
Triage dentist, and she has issue with my
bags, the appointment sheet did say
there wasn't much space, don't bring things,
can't bring kids, no daycare nor food provided,
checking online, guessing even the campus
bookstore cafe is closed, not holiday, but
weekend, like buses not running
(Fairfax is So Car oriented)...
take your diabetes meds, eat ahead, etc...
I answered the history truthfully,
family history of a lot, but not been tested
for many things, just getting a glucose
test done at the health fair,
(link to an Arlington Health Fair not easily found...
Pestilence2016 )
screenings now more of a problem
because of preexisting conditions when/IF
ObamaCare/ Affordable Care Act, gets repealed/
replaced, we have a problem now known about,
which we can't afford to get treated...
An X-Ray or Go Anywhere Else Death?
Guessing the time in line, a woman coming
behind me when I Finally get in line, I was lead
elsewhere, probably generic go over there,
after x-ray, she couldn't not get it right,
kept trying more radiation for me should not
be a problem right? Do I get a lead lined
chest thing, are there doors and rooms
for reducing exposure? I seem to think now
that the green dot waiting line was behind
that wall, was right in the line of fire
for the portable x-ray gun, which looked like
ThinkGeeks' Space Monkey's Death Ray Gun...
So more exposure than necessary, wonder
how many pregnant mothers to be,
and cleared for treatment, people there were?
Or I'm old, so going out with cancer, and
getting my name wrong could not enter me
to x-ray's computer system, was my name
the address of the hospital my father died at?
An inside joke on making me another victim,
and causing my death...
Or covertly fishing for personal information
(read risk checks for their insurance/ debt
collectors?) and/or sadistic torture?
I notice they only initial, while others are
handed patient's handwritten full names,
called out in front of everyone, so privacy
is really lacking besides the lack of walls...
Yellow striping near the door past the conference
area used for portable x-ray, keeps people away,
but they ignored that, if a stretcher needed to
get in, forget it... Packed to the gills, before
splitting off into coloured dot lines,
It seemed to me you could get more than one
so it took a while to figure out, one line,
one service today, no more...
Hours of Waiting
Settle into a line, a black woman doesn't
want to stay, but I'm not sure it was me,
or something else... Musical chairs,
wondering if Lice and other problems,
she has problems getting up and down
so much, besides doing other things
and an occasion shift right, one or two,
likely chairs.. For some reason I'm talking
her ear off, she is into drawing, brought
a book, fashion drawing, and over literally
three hours or so, 10 something to 1 or 2 pm,
she guessed optimistically one, I thought
more and tried calculating it, by counting
say 60 chairs in a hallway, across from
PT and other board, a sign posted on the wall
a few places were Health Fair, for cancer
April 22nd (Earth Day?) at the same
MEC place (I found it once, maybe go back?)
but likely a conflicting activity...
And "after they get a load of me"
(Jack Nickleson's (sp?) the Joker? quote)
What to do While Waiting for Hours?
Eat?
Sleep?
Could not sleep, as have to be in a chair and woken
up every whatever to move over...
Nervous, so can't really rest, people around,
maybe rolling chairs?
Take a number and call on a loud speaker
the whole building/ complex, including the garage?
Lines are Coloured, so Red115, Green161,
Blue210, Yellow65, etc, kind of like DMV does
it with timed slips? They keep the slips,
we could use smart phone cameras to have
a record, time stamping along the way,
if the wait time mattered to the organizers,
doing queuing theory to determine how
long it would take... We have X lines,
how many tellers/ servers doing that?
how long does each take? Extractions?
Endo? Previous year statistics, might help,
and do we stay to the line is ended?
All people arriving by noon, say,
get served, we have reinforcements
coming in after their paid shifts are over,
and how to get cleaning and fatigued
people not making mistakes on the poor?
Drawings, Robots, Yelling, and Police
Police walked thru, a few times, they needed to
know where I was, presumably to steal my stuff
elsewhere? Trying to show my apartment to rent
it out from under me? and/or play with my toys
by illegal entry, the usual threats in the 'hood?
Smoke breaks, bathroom breaks, she is eating,
I have my stuff back there, but would have to
brush my teeth again, in the bathroom not
really set up for that, cramped three stall,
and two sink with baby changing station taking
some urinal and sink wall space?
People seemed to go to affinity groups
by race/ ethnicity, afaict... White guy,
not the only one in line, a loud argument
and talking to much woman in front of me,
seemed like someone I had met elsewhere,
Asian (guy just before me face in a smartphone:
"this is private..."), Latino (without kids),
and Muslim (hijabi makes it pretty clear,
but could be a scarf and bad hair day /joke)
were obvious besides the two African American
women behind me, and some others in line...
Arguments ensued, one lady decided to leave,
afaict, in the commotion ahead, not sure what
they were fighting about, social rules, and make
an angry mob is easy to do, and probably enjoyed
by the overseers/ volunteers I later called guards/
wardens, like do police sketches of the guards,
she mostly concentrated on the figures and the clothes,
doing a timed sketch of her friend/ neighboring black
woman... That was after a fight with Latino women
who tried jumping into the empty space her friend
had left... Putting us in a longer line, and I could
think of reasons for a Hijabi (unmarried woman
not allowed to sit next to men, like in Mosque?)
and later Latino women to get back to their
kids, which weren't allowed, jobs, etc...
Smoke Breaks
Nicotine Anonymous meetings might be good,
but people are stressed about dentistry,
and free drive by dentistry enough,
plus I probably wouldn't want people
forcing mental health treatment on me
in line, so why do substance abuse?
As a medical campus, like a hospital,
it may be a smoke free environment,
meaning not on campus, or have to be
50 feet away or more, not sure...
Nothing said that, in the instructions,
web searches online might help...
WiFi Worked, But Open
Registering with an email address,
and you got a password for their
campus guest WiFi... Not sure
what students and others were
monitoring/ stealing info,
passwords to email accounts,
personal information sent, location
information, etc...
Lunch
The lady next to me was eating bread or
something offered me a granola bar,
and I sent people out on missions for what
was in vending, that I didn't check very well,
a food truck or other cafe open might help,
but poor people don't pay much,
and why bother? Plus brushing after...
I had brought two donated cans, green beans,
and Healthy Choice Chicken Soup,
which might be better heated,
and oatmeal which had to be cooked,
a special cooker I'd been using at home,
discontinued, and overflowed, some, but worked
with instant and regular, as had been practicing,
so associated containers (eat out of a can? gauche?),
can openers, etc, but forgot cinnamon and
nutmeg, had raisins, not yet finished,
and worried about stuff left under the table
in Triage, I had offered to bag it up,
they offered under the closest table,
and in the corner, they would be there all day,
but I didn't see her later, and staff changed,
one guy I called Santa Claus, with white
beard, and red dude rag, surgery, or biker
/ welder, etc bandana, but specialized,
was good nature,d he carried likely used
instruments to be cleaned, as they were
not sterile, nor were they covered, so must
have been used, probably to the autoclave...
A staffer walked by with what looked like
Subway, and a water, asking whose this was,
like we have good, you don't or really
who left this behind?
A few of us said, if it doesn't find a home,
bring it back, we will use it...
Coder MiP
I only got up less than 5? times in three or more
hours, to leave the line, and after a couple
of others going and keeping their space,
I figured it might be safe, having numbers
and allowed for move about the cabin/campus
might help... I stood across from my chair,
but was in the way, staff volunteers walking
by many times, one I suggested they
run the line to see that all in the longest
of lines, restorative Green, the money maker/
bread and butter of Dentistry? like
a certain type of welding? MIG guns?
or stick?) were actually in the right place,
kind of like run the bowels...
Triage may have been considering
how loopy I was from lack of sleep,
biking there, etc, and see how much
wait time they can tolerate, as part
of the calculation of what you
get done that day, hopefully...
She seemed to say, look at that mouth,
they won't know what to do with that,
without the food particles, I did brush
right, or did I brush then eat?
I Missed so much? Obviously not
OCD in the dental area, maybe details...
/Joke
Anyways, I got the packed Coder MiP
and many were interested, I could
not get it to perform well, and no others
could not run it, too easy to run away
with it... Hand gestures didn't do much
besides the go forward I was having so
much problems with, maybe they reflashed
it? Geeks could, someone probably had
some/one at home, so learning the hacking
of the bots, is probably a pass time, in a tech
intensive area...
Gallows Humour
Near the end of the line, I used the clown nose,
the drawing lady next to me, whom I announced
as the next Vera Wang (I had to include Asian,
in the comedy mix) was by then doing
a timed drawing of the Latino woman with bag,
whom I hammed up into a future model,
have to be able to strike a pose for 5 minutes
or more, a guy going by had too much clothes
on for the female artist drawing, this guy
is X-Ray, so only draw his bones, (it's been
done before), etc...
Maybe it got her mind off of the pain,
she was wanting her Novacaine early,
as appetizer, but being in the chair,
and once in it, can't really leave it,
a sterile field type of thing, IDK..
I suggested a list of things people could
do while in line, busking with drawing
being one, most would have social
rules of no cutting in line, and just
shut up, like in elevators, but parents
with kids are probably used to it,
yacking away, and ignoring it...
Dissention
It would be fairly easy to compare
this with an experimental Tavistock
group, intentional community,
various arts things of waiting for Godot,
and comedy of waiting for a bus,
me being more Forrest Gump than
anything else... People getting
annoyed, not sure how long it would
take, and prodded, to get out of line,
so many ways by the process,
these good people were volunteering
their time, unpaid, so you poor people
could get / lose teeth, so the least
you can do is be grateful for the
Gods before you, type attitude that
got annoying... It just grated on
me, they way it was done,
maybe some belabored parts of this
will give you an idea of what it was
like on the other side...
In medical, you have to experience
some of the tests too, a shortage of people,
and you do some not too invasive
tests on other medical students,
but limited self experimentation
(Flat Liners is too far, for example)...
Self Dentistry
Where the mind goes while waiting,
seemingly pointlessly, under pressure,
maybe a Dremel/ rotary tool, a system
of mirrors, some smoke and do it myself?
If I were in remote rural Alaska, and a tooth
broke, or other bone, I would have to do
something, right?
Plyers! Stat! Nope, Hurts too bad, bleeding,
can't Carterize myself, burning flesh inside
my mouth, and physician heal thyself
only goes so far... Does Peers really fall
down on Dental? They need the God
Image to look up to while in more
pain than necessary, or is that just
a way of making money? Like Tele
Evangelists...
This Could Get Ugly
I can imagine the end of the day, getting
really ugly, as people get more tired,
some in a lot of pain, and waiting,
only to find out that they could not get
served... It was a two day event,
but I started on the second day,
so no come back tomorrow...
And a prognosis of needing another
root canal, even if the one worked on
lasts until next year's MOM,
and I'm still welcome at the event,
what of the other teeth falling apart?
Will the root canal ones last?
What happens as a tooth with
the nerve drilled out falls apart?
Like building does it collapse in
on itself? Like taking down a
building, say bombing buildings
for taking down old project housing
to make scattered places instead??
Which falls apart the first the inside?
Outside? Eating nuts? PopCorn,
Kettle Corn Kernels?
Sensitivity gets worse?
Cold?
Hot?
Sugar?
Constant pain?
While limited income doesn't get better?
So that is the general decline of health
and aging? To have no teeth,
all extracted,
can't afford dentures?
Links
OldClownsHome2015
MindingAndMiningYourTeeth2012
HippieClownCamp2011
AVeteransSonLaughsAndSpitsAtMe2011
Idears
and many more, maybe even creating a
DentalMASHSym?
Why may be elsewhere in this,
moving about the cabin,
so you don't have to stay in line,
and can go someplace, maybe
even a restaurant beeper type coasters,
runners finding you,
pictures before and after?
Find this person, hopefully not dead in the
bathroom, because they were not getting
the help they needed in time...
Committed, because they discovered they
had HIV/AIDs, could not pursue dentistry/
medicine, the bills were too high,
need another root canal, at full price,
Trumped out of life, etc...
Kids need teeth too, there are other events
where kids are listed, but not sure how
that would work given this experience...
Since I'm no longer a child, though act
like one at times, maybe find out how those
go, and try improving on that?
Write up the instructions,
create waiting rules and create some
reasonable accommodations
for some of them?
X-Ray along another wall, where people
aren't in line(s)...
Like into earth, in a basement, similar nothing
behind it wall/area...
A floor plan is available of the campus
but how to adjust the event to it, as lines
are for the clinic... Chairs and instruments
were not M*A*S*H* stuff, just the lines
and a couple of chairs for triage,
and BP nurse check in...
Only a couple of mobility impaired people
seen, one wheelchair guy?
and a lady who had difficulty walking,
maybe they got to skip part of the line?
Same floor and/or elevators, don't recall
any on another floor, and thought it
was at least a two floor thing last time I was there...
Floor plan software like World Chef,
tables, and chairs, and layout, and community
crowd source a design for something better?
I had though there would be waiting time
outside, but it was freezing and cold...
What is other times of year like?
At the county fair?
Mobile trucks, like for eye exams?
BookMobiles for dental?
If lead lined trucks are needed to keep
the x-rays down, according to regulation,
x-raying a truck is possible, it is done
for security purposes, but really just the
person inside... And the head/face
really, park something behind it?
The PT room was closed, students
were absent, besides those visiting,
and classes were probably off for holiday/
break? Check online...
Dogs? Service animals like reading animals,
and probably in use... Play time, serious
time... But I want a dog, just visiting one...
I want a pit bull, not this friendly stuff..
If it's dentistry wouldn't a pit bull be the
right mascot? /Joke
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
Literally 3-4 hours of waiting, get out of line
and might lose the hours of waiting
and only worked on one tooth, seemed
like he took out a lot of the tooth,
grinding claiming it's bad,
then after said it would need root
canal, and didn't really even consider the
the one I had had root canal on,
like choosing which child should die,
say waiting for the train to Auschwitz?
Put some plastic stuff in the tooth,
maybe like house sealing a roof/ vapor lock?,
keep stuff out, make it last a little longer,
(medicated strip?) a new technique
from private practice, almost a corner cube
and people collecting around before it started,
might have needed a surgery theatre
(like House, MD?) and my tooth magically
like the previous one (odds on that?)
doing an experimental study on poor and
no real paperwork on that, or has MASH
type dentistry moved to that already,
Meat Ball Surgery, for Corporeal /Sargent
Klinger, or really more like Colonel Flagg,
and get him sick/ dead before more problems?
Taking out healthy pink organs for the good
of everyone else? Or just more
MindingAndMiningYourTeeth2012 ?
I asked the probably Latino assistant, he
was busy hitting on? before going out to
a Chef Show type restaurant, and had
done what he could, he couldn't stay late,
maybe someone else could, did his time/
limit and going, but someone wanted to
talk to him, maybe the governor, about
the other assistant and what looked
similar to the Dental Student , or his friend,
who probably drilled some extra holes,
"I Did That" while probably on a protective
order/ stay away, but could not miss
enjoying seeing an extra tooth be destroyed?
which makes money for the field,
"if there weren't cavities, we wouldn't have
jobs"/make money (Jobism?), and other things,
all probably stuff we need not hear, but I guess
trying to be personable, I wasn't really
into shaking hands, gave him a fist bump,
a bit of a twang to his voice,
but forgot to go back to my chest,
to give it meaning as one guy in Petworth
insists if I do it, to do it right...
It basically means from the heart,
and stop the fighting, share the love
not the hate, I'm paraphrasing, and probably
badly...
He seemed to go for the nerve, and the
next swipe of the drill was going to hurt
a lot more, so he stopped on that,
and injected from the other side,
which the injection hurt, and
later tried getting more information
than I could give about the bite,
clamp down on the tape,
a couple of times, it's numbed
up, how can I tell the bite?
Dumb patient...
Parting, I asked the assistant /student
what was the problem on the x-rays
that were pulled up, and she couldn't tell,
so they went in on bad x-rays, so no
real proof there, it was worse than
expected, or Gouging?
He was protecting his family name?
He was a previous grad from the same
school that I was messed with
MCV, but 2010, so might have known,
alumnae, and other issues?
Can dentistry, any more than DC, or
anything else, like rich kids going to
live on an island (name of book/
movie, not Gilligans' Island,
more reality), self rule?
Or does it take an IG?
Blue Panel experts?
and other problems inherent
in this mental health system,
and other systems of care?
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
What risks would you take to have a basic
necessity like health care?
Dental Care?
Vision Care?
Transportation?
Food?
If this were 50 years ago, and you were
African American, would you go to Richmond,
to a mostly white school, and kow taw (sp?)
to the egos of mostly white dental students
when say you have the aptitude but not money
to go to medical/ dental school yourself, but didn't?
How many pokes and prods, questioning from
strangers trying to pick a fight, would you take
in order to wait in line for 4 hours for what may
be a non necessary procedure, and take more
abuse?
Just walk out at that chair?
"Y'all can't touch me!"
"I wouldn't get treatment from you guys/gals
if you were the last people on Earth..."
Make a scene and get arrested?
In protest?
Non violently, really...
Would that hurt the chances of say having
a dental school annex in Northern Virginia?
Would you play the politics for the common good?
Or be selfish, shut up and do as you were told,
like a good slave/N*...
Substitute Disabled for N* and see how it sounds...
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