Meg decided last year she could not longer stand her dentist, as this dentist copped an attitude with her when she had to reschedule a cleaning twice in a month.
Meg gave the office plenty of notice, and things happened, like the nice people at Lowe’s wanted to deliver a new washer that day. Which completely took precedence over a cleaning, as laundry had not been done in 9 days.
Miss Dentist was all like, WELL, didn’t you reschedule this once already? And Meg thinks, why are YOU answering the phone, has yet another receptionist left your employ, Dr. Murphy Brown?
Time was of the essence so Meg kept her rescheduled cleaning appointment, whereupon the dentist told her that sensitive tooth thing was all in her head, and then kept repeating, there nothing wrong with that tooth! It’s healthy tissue! OK, then it’s healthy, throbbing sensitive tissue then, b**ch.
The other day Meg forgot the dentist nicely scheduled a 6 month cleaning. Meg left a message saying simply, “I won’t be making that appointment.”
The next morning, the office called Meg’s house, but didn’t leave a message, Instead, they slammed their phone down in an apparent fit of dental hygiene rage. It made Meg incredibly happy that she was there to hear that wayward phone hangup, and she’s now seeking a new person to torture her.
Meg has also decided to fire her eye doctor, who’s name is IMTOOCHEAPTOHIREARECEPTIONIST. In this case, Dr. Cheap decided it was more important to answer a phone call from UPS, and left Meg with screwed up bi-focal vision that she absolutely could not see with. In a scientific experiment, Meg opened a box of her more powerful right lenses, and placed one in her left eye. Guess what? Meg now has perfectly clear and balanced vision! She isn’t wearing reading glasses anymore, because she can freaking see again!
Today’s blog was brought to you by Twisted Susan. Thanks for letting me channel you, Susan. I feel much better.
Stay tuned to see who Meg will fire next week.
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I fired my dentist for almost the exact same thing!! Frankly, it was liberating!
I love firing people. I am so about the customer service and I don’t care if you DO think you’re the one providing a must-have procedure for me, I’m the one paying for it. Thankyouverymuch.
Fire away – How dare they not treat you with the utmost respect. What is with the medical profession that they think we are like a flock of sheep just following them around, hoping they’ll do what we need done and then thank them profusely with $$$. Often, common courtesy is missing from their practice…so fire away. Just don’t fire you mother, please? She needs the gig since she’s nothing else to claim as a reason d’etre !! Love, Mum
Dentists are well known in the mental health profession as having the most EFFED UP personalities of all the major career categories. Big tendency toward sexual perversion, among other things. Heavy on the malignant narcissism; in females, that often takes on a Borderline Personality Disorder cast, which specializes in Umbrageousness and Severe Unwarranted Self-Righteousness. Eye docs, on the other hand, are all severely Obsessive-Compulsive, which is a good thing, since it’s about your eyes, which are harder to implant than…say, teeth.
Thanks for the shout out, sista.
I didn’t fire my dentist, but I did request a different hygenist. Nurse Betty was not pleasant and caused pain during the cleaning and obligatory flossing which I hate – give me the floss and let me do it myself and no one will get hurt. Thank you.
Wow. Your descriptions are spot on! Especially that self-righteous part!
Nance has Miss Bee scared now – I actually love my dentist! He’s a riot – always fun – always nice – very good about telling me what NOT to spend my $$$ on! I’ve fired many a Primary Care physicians but have lucked out in the dentist department I guess!
I just don’t know if I’ll ever be able to look at him the same way!
PS – Glad you fired that bitch!
I fired my doctor a fews years ago. He would not listen to a thing I told him. Did I say a$$wipe?
I fired a Primary doc who told me all I needed to cure my IBS was a “good dose of Valium”.
Then I fired a pediatrician who told me I had strong opinions about my son’s care and they were not necessarily appropriate. He told me “HE” was the doctor, not me. Then he told me he would think about whether he wanted to continue treating my son. He said “Give me a week to decide”. I told his receptionist that we would NOT make another appointment, we were NOT ever going back there and to tell the doctor that the letters after his name were MD….not GOD.
I love Noe Noe and LMSS – Meg is SO like you both it’s scary! (I’m a close second)
Take no crap and hold no prisoners!
My friend Amster fired her entire life – first her cheating husband, then her inappropriate water aerobics friends, then the swim coach, a secretary and a para-legal. Her life is now free of umbrageousness (thanks, Nance, for the word) and other irritations.
Life is too short to spend it with obnoxious people – you go, girl!
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