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20th November 2021, 15:42 | #101 | |
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20th November 2021, 17:00 | #102 | |
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If I take out a difficult wisdom tooth and bill £200, it's regarded as expensive. It is 'free' to the patient if they can access the service on the NHS, so the private dentist is seen as taking advantage. The true cost to the public purse which funds the NHS is around twice that figure, but it's buried in the massive accounts of the system. I try to get all my patients NHS care when I can, since it's a no brainer from their point of view. Unfortunately, the NHS is oversubscribed so they have introduced road blocks like the IOTN (index of treatment need) which can lead to a refusal of treatment. But again, if I step in to do the refused orthodontic work, I have to charge minimum of £2k which is a lot for a young family to find and there is again the old chestnut of greedy private dentist making a killing. My pension will be very considerably below those of my NHS colleagues, most of whom retire at 65 with excellent pensions. I'm now 70 and still working. I'll probably still be working if fit enough at 75. Can't afford to retire lol. Fortunately for myself, I still get job satisfaction providing quality dentisty to my patients. Bit off topic, but I had to respond |
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Martin, you have painted to a totally different picture of dentists to common perception, including that held by myself.
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And as for the government turning people into idiots, I'm pretty sure that there were plenty of numpties around before the pandemic! |
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20th November 2021, 20:11 | #106 | |
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You are of course very wrong, we are in a very much better position now, than when the panic was on to find suitable vaccines. The stats and graphs make it abundantly clear that the initial lockdowns worked, then later the the rollout of the vaccines. The hospital admission stats, showing how few covid admissions are made of people who have had the jabs, further confirm how effective it is. Deaths from covid are also down where people have had the jab. How much more do you need to convince you that it works and is effective? It is those who have stepped up to have the jab, who have done their bit in preventing the spread and many more longer lockdowns. It is so effective and the risk from the vaccine so miniscule, that for the good of everyone, I firmly believe the UK ought to make it compulsory, unless an individual has a valid reason not to have it. If people continue to read and believe all the conspiracy theories, plus claiming rights of the individual, then it seems that may well happen as happened in Austria last week. After all, what about the rights of that much larger group of individuals who did the sensible thing and voluntarily had the jab?
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21st November 2021, 18:57 | #109 | |
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And more useful than the question you posed would be to ask what proportion of hospital cases is vaccinated versus unvaccinated. In a broad sense, the total number of cases is almost irrelevant as long as only a tiny fraction of those infected end up in hospital. |
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