Daily Anecdotes

Thursday, March 09, 2006

This is serious people.
I have devoted this post to some one I love and respect very much, to a man who has been so badly hurt and now is so badly upset and angry as result of inhumanly behavior of a so-called professional who has no professional morals, no honesty, the one that has done bad things to me too in the past, but not as bad as he has done to my friend this last time. This was the last straw, as they say, that explodes and ruins all tolerance and forgiveness. I myself decided not to go to this dentist any more before he does something and make me mad and make me do something that is not in my nature. Anyway because this lenient tolerant man has no one else to turn to and complain about this ugly injustice and because I know that he is right and he is telling the truth, I let him say some thing here at least, a kind of catharsis you may call it for some one who is a gentleman and doesn't approve of brutal revenge (until he is able to control his anger of course,) and tries to respect peoples privacy but every thing has limits as we say here, and he is human after all, not like the God's son who was able to tolerate peoples stupidity and rascality to the end. I just asked him one thing, I said please write it in two parts, asked him to wait a few days and then say his last word. Maybe some readers suggest something a solution? It's very serious guys really, and it is a big bad problem.

Hi, first I must ask you to excuse my English (instead of French! As they say,) I'm so upset and angry that I'm not able to express myself properly, forgive me for that.
To all you good unfortunate people who may need to go to a certain DENTIST, one in a hundred or thousand maybe, but he exists all the same I'm sorry to say.
Be aware my fellow citizens of a certain DENTIST whom I might name at last against my will and against my principles, that I take very seriously by the way. I have to do this for humanity's sake, no kidding or exaggeration, to prevent him from doing these really ugly things that he does to those poor people who trust him, those who don't know other honest respectable dentists, the majority. I must warn you about a few things that he might do to you if you trust him all the way down and not knowing what kind of person he is. Then you may have to pay a heavy price.
Be aware of these things:
For example the dentist takes off a tooth cap, (that expensive, cover they put on an unfortunate tooth) and by the way he hadn't told you that the tooth's root must be taken out before making and putting the cap on the tooth, why? for money of course, what else?) (And you know what I mean here by [root],the ASAB is inside the root actually.)

Anyway he sends you for a [root canal operation!] to his partner. After that, when you return, he (pretends) tries to put the cap back but the wrong way! and of course it doesn't fit (now I know, in fact every kid knows how to put a tooth cap back if he watches just once; the outside and inside differs and anyway there's just two way to put the cap on.)
He tells you it doesn't fit. Why? Because if it fits, (which it does in fact) he must use a drop of glue and can't charge you 150,000 for a new cap. Any way you naturally ask why it doesn't go back into it's place?! When all has been done is pulling the root out, no one has touched the tooth body. You naively ask: Why is that doc?
He says: I really don't know, beats me!!
And because it's so unimaginably ugly, you cannot even think for a second that he is lying so shamelessly, until later when at home you go in front of the mirror and put the old cap back on the first try!
So you go to another honest dentist and he fixes it with one drop of glue, as simple as that. But because he, the bad guy, has ruined inside the cap a bit, to show that it needs correction it's a bit loose and needs more glue.

About sending you to his business partner for a root canal. He sends you to some one for a root canal. (I'm really sorry to say that now it's plain as day light that she gives him percentage, I guess at least 30%) and this one, when you tell her that who has sent you, charges 30% more. (You pay her 120,000 and then later you find out that she charges the others ninety thousand for the same “two root tooth”, yes my friends, 90,000 for one lousy root canal at least! But you are in pain, you cannot argue and they both know this. And the very ugly thing that he does is this:
First time when I get back to him and he asked me how much had I paid for the root canal, (he always asks, looking after his interest naturally,) and I answered 120,000 he said ok and was happy and kind and did his job while telling bad jokes.
The next time that he sent me for another root canal (a few days later, yes, unfortunately I have bad teeth,) I found out that there was a dentist in our neighborhood that does these things; so I called him and he charged me 40,000; one third of what my dentist's partner took from me. (Believe me for a two-root tooth again; and it's not cheap of course but it's not all out robbery either. And it's not just the matter of money really, it's more about immoral behavior.)
Anyway, I went back to him the next day, he was very kind and polite again and asked me to lie down and be comfortable and put his plastic gloves on and then he asked the usual question:
How much did you pay?
I said: 40,000.
What?!!! (Pause) Didn't you go to the one I told you?...
No, I found this dentist near our house and…(mind you I never objected or any thing about that 120,000.)
He thought for a few moments then suddenly took off his plastic gloves, and said:
Let me see the X-ray. He had never asked me for the X-ray before and I have eight rootless teeth, victims of ruthless acts, in my mouth. And the very fact that he took off his gloves first and then asked me the question shows that he had decided to get rid of me at that moment.
I said: I don't have it with me. Why do you ask me for the x-ray?!
He let a sigh of relief and said:
Then I can't fill your tooth, I must see the X-ray.
After I reminded him that he had never asked for X-ray before, he said this time is different! This tooth may hurt you in future and you may tell me...
I told him that I accept all the responsibility and I even give him a signed written piece of paper that if any thing bad happened to this tooth in future, I'm solely responsible.
He said no I cannot do it.
I insisted and he insisted till he made me real angry and at last I found out what was his problem: I haven't gone to his partner and he was punishing me for that. And I was so angry that forgot to tell him that he could take the x-ray himself like he took every time he wanted to do anything to a tooth. Anyway, at last I asked why you changed your mind the second you found out that I haven't gone to your partner? He pretended that he was surprised and amazed and said: Do you suggest that I take percentage? And I said is there any other way to look at it? Tell me and I'll look at it the way you like. Then he said I don't fix your tooth any more. I said fine, but before that you must fix this one and more important my row of four caps (two of them were quite healthy by the way and he had fooled me, I was naive and trusted him on everything about tooth, he had told me that to make the two teeth caps firm, we must make one row of four! and I had accepted, not thinking for a moment that he was just trying to make more money, as simple as that! Anyway I told him that he must fix them, before we divorce each other and live happily ever after.
He didn't dare to refuse, seeing my anger, so he said ok, but I have another client now and there's not enough time, make another appointment, I'll do it next week. I agreed and left.
Then when I called later, his secretary ashamed and apologizing said that she couldn't give me an appointment because the coward dentist had asked her to get rid of me. He had told her he won't finish the job that had cost me six hundred thousand, 150,000 for each tooth, two of them absolutely healthy which he had ruined as I said before. I told the girl to remind him that I had paid fool payment and for him it's not the matter of liking me or not. He shouted from distant: You do what ever you can, go to court!
Now, what should I do to such person, and not a man as we define "man". Can I take him to a court of law? Of course not, he never gives a receipt or anything, I don't have any hard evidence, except the testimony of myself, my wife and his secretary, who is a nice girl by the way, but do not want to lose her job.
Shall I send some people to his office to teach him a lesson?
You see, dishonest people misuse honest honorable people by doing what ever they like because they think it's against gentlemanly or ladylike principles to reveal even the bad guy's secret. But can we say just once, in some extreme cases, can we tell them:
Guess what! You are wrong this time! Can we do this just once? Can we defend a tiny bit of our rights at least by just saying that “you went too far this time, you hurt me real bad.” He'll laugh at us because that sort of person doesn't care about reputation and self-respect and all that, but we can do this much at least to calm our selves down, can we?
Now really tell me people! What can one do to such a, what shall I call him?
Anybody has any ideas?
Shall I reveal his identity? It's against what I believe and my standards on the whole in general, but this is a special case.
Or we must let him go away as always? What about his next victims?
What do you think? Will anybody help me in this matter?


9 Comments:

  • I think I know who this man is. If he is the same guy I must add this: He left half of a rootless dead tooth in my gum, saying almost to himself: "OK that's enough for our job now." (I swear Gaznkan that's exactly what he said absent-mindedly. I later found out how much unnecessary pain and money cost me that simple whispering!) Then he ordered a triple tooth cap for my [upper left teeth] and then when the cap was ready he called me, I went there and he put the triple cap on it's place and bloodied my mouth (this one not his fault) and cut and mended the gum edge and put the cap finally in it's place and gave me a mirror to see how nice it was, and then after all that he remembered that he must had sent me, before,! to his surgeon partner (to pay him 200,000 tumans) to take the triple cap off and bring out the rest of that dead tooth by surgery. The surgeon did his job and sent me back to him and he did all that bloodying all over again! But this time, after surgery the gum had changed and the triple cap didn't sit comfortably in it's place and I had to pay another 420,000, (this time he gave 30,000 discount because even by his own standards(!!) he had gone badly too far and that was my last time.(Ding Dung 13?)am I right?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thu Mar 09, 10:02:00 AM  

  • It's big a dilemma: to Name or Not to Name? But we believe that it's not fair to let other people get hurt too. They say: "It's a sin if you see the blind and the well and you say nothing". Anyway the decision is yours.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Fri Mar 10, 07:27:00 AM  

  • What an unsettling and upsetting story Gazankhan. I really feel for your friend. Our teeth are very valuable to us but at the same time they can cause us a lot of physical and financial pain. Therefore it’s very important to have a dentist that is honest and we can trust but unfortunately there seem to be a lot of dentists who are out to con people and take their money. I really wish there was a way you could teach this horrible man a lesson but sadly I don’t really know what we can do. Maybe we could have a little demonstration outside his practice and tell his other patients what this person is really like.

    By Blogger Shirin, at Fri Mar 10, 01:54:00 PM  

  • Of course we can find a tiny minority that do dishonest things regardless of conscience in every profession but when it comes to Dotors and Judges it is absolutely unacceptable and horribly unethical. It's a huge shame really. I suggest you name him if you are absolutely sure. Doing that is NOT immoral and certainly not wicked.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Fri Mar 10, 02:48:00 PM  

  • Dear Gazan, I think I know your friend, and I know this too that it's very hard for him to name anybody, no matter what. But I know the dentist too. Just wanted to say that I can name him if you are not comfortable to do that.
    Saiid.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Sat Mar 11, 11:09:00 AM  

  • Dear Gazankan, who is this man? Just let me take care of him. I hate this kind of so-called docs!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Sun Mar 12, 04:10:00 PM  

  • I know the guy, haven't met him yet though (Now I must say thank God!!)
    It's really funny, not just funny but amazing that some one had just told me last week that "if you have a tooth filling job, you can go to this dentist .But for more serious matters I don't recommend." and now I see your friends complain. Thanks Gazankhan, you saved me a lot.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Tue Mar 14, 07:05:00 AM  

  • Dear Gazan, we lost a very close friend two weeks ago and untill yesteday I didn't want to do ANYTHING, honestly. And now after all that time I go online and find out that you still havn't updated your blog! how come? got tired of writing? I really hope you are busy in a good way not like us. My husband says hello and says just ignor the cheap people, think they don't exist. Hope to hear from you soon Gaznkan.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Mon Mar 27, 07:19:00 AM  

  • awfully long post but interesting.........

    By Blogger Unknown, at Wed Mar 29, 11:53:00 AM  

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