For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 24, 2012

What NOT to say to a patient.

Oops is the other thing.

HELP!! Get me out of here!Uh, let’s reschedule my appointment. Maybe today isn’t the best day for surgery, after all!

Uhhh Miss Wilson….You better bail out while you still can.

You’re right ‘cause my name isn’t Wilson.

Like the morning I had a root canal. During the prep the hygienist started to laugh hysterically – see saw that the doc had one brown shoe and one black. I almost rescheduled.

Having just been to a visit to my wonderful dentist to glue my $1,000 dental crown back on after it popped off after only 3 months wear (no charge), this is funny timing.

As I said on another site, when your ophthalmologist is peering into your eye, you don’t want to hear “Holy COW!!” I happened to be hatching a detached retina. All better now.

A permanent crown that pops off in only 3 months was not fitted correctly – make sure that it is documented – if it happens again, you demand a new crown.

A surgeon saying…“where’s my scalpel?”

I also don’t want to hear, “Wow, I’ve never seen that before!”

wow, I’ve never seen that before

When I was in the Army, fellow GI went to the dentist and came back with the following:He was told that he needed a bridge. However, we usually do these only for officers but I’ve never done one of these before —(He turned down the gnerous offer!)(Maybe being an E-5 had some advantages)

Howtheduck: I think the preferable word order would be “Johnston’s real-life husband was a dentist back in 1983…” not “Johnston’s real-life husband back in 1983 was a dentist…” The last I heard, they are still married.

LOL" I don’t care who you are, that there’s funny" LOL

I had an aching tooth since November. I went to two dentists and neither of them would pull it; they said it was my sinuses. So I gave up.

Hi to gmartin

A British keyboard provides the $ sign as SHIFT plus 4. Normally SHIFT plus 3 goves the pound sign. For those inconsiderate foreigners who use Euros, the procedure is ALT +ctrl +4 = €

The universal keyboard shortcut: hold down ALT and type 156 on the numeric keypad (ensure Num lock is turned on) This should through the magic of ASCII coding give you the pound sign. ££

I use to go to a bad dentist who would overcharge me, drill in my mouth when there was no cavities, do a cavity before pulling a wisdom tooth pull. I told him I had no insurance which fell on deaf ears.

I finally wised up and dumped him. Wished I done it sooner.He was scum and low life.

A day in which everything goes wrong?You mean there are other kinds?

Open mouth, insert foot.