PCIntern: Saddest Dental Office Story so far...

[Ralph Wiggum]

PCIntern  (1000+ posts)        .
Wed Mar-03-10 04:52 PM
Original message

Saddest Dental Office Story so far...

Edited on Wed Mar-03-10 04:53 PM by PCIntern
We'll do this 'clinically':

A 51 year-old female presented today, with a history of attending this practice of 27 years. Her chief complaint was that her job was eliminated nineteen months ago. Unable to find work, she had to move to rural Pennsylvania with her racist, mentally-unfit mother. The domicile consists of a 12x15 room shared by the patient, her mother, and seven fully grown dogs. Cell-phone photographs reveal a level of filth and depression hitherto not seen by this practitioner in the context of his patients.

After the patient's crying subsided, she begged the practitioner for a job, money, food, and quite literally anything to help her get out of this environment which, she states, may kill her shortly, one way or the other.

Having directed her to various social service organizations to which he has connections, the practitioner went to sit in his office and stared at the wall for a while. He completed his day, and then wrote this post.

Diagnosis: Bush Recession in extremis

Prognosis: Guarded to Poor

On edit: The patient did not incur a bill for services, of course.
 

They'll come up with anything to blame Bush about.

[The Village Idiot]

She lives in a 12x15 foot room but has a cell phone with a camera?? Does anyone know how to find a 12x15 room for rent?

I don't have a cell phone.

The Democrats have been running Congress since 2006.

[JohnnyReb]

I'm gonna sub-divide and sub-let my living room so I can afford a cell phone.... thank you Mr. Bush.

[The Village Idiot]

In the Obamaconomy we're all going to be living in 12x15 rooms and sharing a bathroom with 8 other families.

[blitzkrieg_17]

bouncy

[Mike220]

OK, what I want to know is do the DUmbasses actually think that anyone believes their bouncing piles of bullshit?

Seriously, my 2 year old nephew can create more convincing lies.

[AllosaursRus]

bouncy

Naw, BullShirt!

[Ree]

YAWN....
51 yr old still livin with her mother?
went to the dentist, but has no job, money, food?
lives in a 12 x15 room, but has a cell with a camera?
A real life dentist who posts on DU and can't write a descent bouncy?

 

[dandi]

Beaverhausen  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-03-10 04:56 PM
Response to Original message
3. you are an angel
 You helped her with resources and you didn't charge her for your own services.

Behind the Aegis  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-03-10 05:02 PM
Response to Original message
7. What a mensch, you are!

W.
T.
F.

You have GOT to be freakin' kidding me. A woman comes in with that tale of woe and he doesn't buy her a bite of lunch? Slip her a few bucks? Offer to make some calls to other practices to see if they need some help around the office? It doesn't even say she got any dental treatment.

But he's a hero for giving her the @#!!*&% number to the welfare office?

Geez Louise these people couldn't be any more hypocritical or shallow if they tried.

One evening a while back I went to the Winn Dixie across from my hospital and sitting out front was one of my old psych patients I hadn't seen in years. Sweet guy, wouldn't harm a fly, but has problems. I knew he was from Georgia (this is Florida) so I asked him what he was doing there. For some reason he had come down too early for his appointment (it was the next day), and when I questioned him his plan was to spend the night out there in front of the store and see his doctor the next day.

Without a thought I reached in my pocket and pulled out a twenty and handed it to him so he could stay in the boarding house for vets and their families by the hospital. No expectation of it being paid back. I didn't even stop to consider he might spend it on something else. It just seemed the right thing to do at the time.

And the best these assholes can do is point someone towards the gubmint, then come back to DU and write bad prose about it while basking in the adoration of other DUmmies over what a great humanitarian they are?
"Compassion" my ass. These people make me sick.
 

[AllosaursRus]

You and everyone else here Dandi. You and everyone else! It's the main reason my pet name for them is "pukes".

[NHSparky]

bouncy

Dead cats bounce better than this story.

[AllosaursRus]

Dead cats bounce better than this story.

Every time I see your name on a post I know I'm goin' to get a laugh! Well done, Sparky!!!!

[USA4ME]

PCIntern

..... the practitioner went to sit in his office and stared at the wall for a while.

Probably did him some good to stare at something that's almost as stupid as he is.

.

[AllosaursRus]

Probably did him some good to stare at something that's almost as stupid as he is.

.

He'd of had to be starin' at what he left in the commode in order to find that, I'm sure!

[Alpha Mare]

monmouth  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-03-10 10:35 PM
Response to Reply #12
17. You really need to start writing your memoirs or a book on your
 life PC.

PCIntern  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-03-10 11:19 PM
Response to Reply #17
19. I am writing...
 eventually you shall read of this...it is unlike any other book about dentists or doctors...
 

I'm sure it is. 

Quantess  (1000+ posts)      Wed Mar-03-10 10:35 PM
Response to Original message
16. I wonder how she pays for her cell phone?
 Or maybe she lost service and now uses it as a camera?
 
 PCIntern  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-03-10 10:38 PM
Response to Reply #16
18. ...it's hard to get a job when they can't call you.
 Cell phones are not luxury items for many anymore...it can be the only link which they have to civilization if they're homeless or shuttling between/among folks.
 
xchrom (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-03-10 11:19 PM
Response to Reply #16
20. I'm sure you do wonder about her cell phone.
 And that says more about you than her.

 Quantess  (1000+ posts)      Wed Mar-03-10 11:24 PM
Response to Reply #20
21. It does? 
 Asking a question about a second hand story about a woman in poverty makes me...what?

IMO, for you to criticize me for a simple question, makes you a self-righteous finger wagger on a high horse.

[GOBUCKS]

This is clearly a bouncy, with the dental office cleaning lady coming up with a tale based very closely on the trials and tribulations of Doug's ex-wive, poor stupid Beth Ferrari, who was forced to move into that tiny camping trailer out in the desert with her mother, two big dogs, and now her crazy brother who is also a loser.

[formerlurker]

move to rural Pennsylvania with her racist, mentally-unfit mother

Racist is included here because?????????

Cell-phone photographs reveal a level of filth and depression hitherto not seen by this practitioner in the context of his patients.

Daughter can't clean her mentally ill mom's house?   Seriously?    

[formerlurker]

I'm gonna sub-divide and sub-let my living room so I can afford a cell phone.... thank you Mr. Bush.

Nice catch on the cell phone, I missed that on the first read.

[BEG]

This pompous liar is speaking in third person....he is talking about himself as the "practitioner" right? 

[AllosaursRus]

Racist is included here because????????? She's more than likely conservative. Folks that have lived long enough to go thru the Depression, usually are.

 

Daughter can't clean her mentally ill mom's house?  Seriously?     Youre kiddin' right?

[Carl]

This pompous liar is speaking in third person....he is talking about himself as the "practitioner" right? 

Yeah,WTF is that about anyways?

[GOBUCKS]

Yeah,WTF is that about anyways?

DUmmy PCIntern has always claimed to be a dentist or doctor or some one type of professional or another, depending on the story he wants to tell at any given time. He appears more likely to be a cleaning person, or at most a receptionist, who has access to the office waste basket, and bases a lot of stories on the trash he finds. I think we're all pretty safe from having DUmmy PCIntern "practice" on us. Even government Obamadocs would likely be preferable.

[The Village Idiot]

lol.

He's in poverty I tell ya, he told me so when he dropped by to show off his new wheels and his bling bling

it went wink wink wink wink in the sun

[kenth]

I wonder why BNCYIntern didn't offer up some of those harvested gold fillings to the poor woman. That might have paid for the cell phone bill.

[AllosaursRus]

I wonder why BNCYIntern didn't offer up some of those harvested gold fillings to the poor woman. That might have paid for the cell phone bill.

Well, seein' as this idiot is more than likely the janitor, ya have to have teeth to do that!