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OK. I'll keep playing along.
This entire debate started because you smugly implied that teaching hospitals/institutions were merely places where the indigent go to have their bodies poked and prodded by student idiots, who do things like take a full set of x-rays for practice purposes only, and that any rational person with a modicum of income would go to a private practice, where the quality of care in would be far superior.
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To be clear, nowhere did I say or even imply that medical students are idiots.
The debate started with your first response to OP, where you all but insulted them for criticizing the kind of care received at a teaching hospital:
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Just because you don't understand something does not make the doctor a "weirdo".
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Go ahead and report the dentist to the hospital management, state dental board, the BBB, and your father's brother's cousin's former roommate. They will all look at the complaint and realize who the real "weirdo" is.
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I rationally explained that some of the finest hospitals in the country are teaching institutions, employing some of the finest doctors in the country, and deliver care to all walks of life.
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People have the right to question any aspect of care they receive even in the best facilities if they didn't like it. But it's almost as if you have a professional bias that prevents you from even acknowledging this basic right of patients.
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Instead of just acknowledging your misconceptions and moving on, you have decided to double down on your comments and shift the goal post, now focusing on the supposed cleanliness and better healing environment of a private practice vs a teaching hospital, conspiracy theories regarding American and foreign doctors, etc.
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"Supposed" cleanliness of private practice versus hospitals?
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated one in 25 Americans contracts a hospital-acquired nosocomial infection (HAI) each day.
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Of the 1.7 million Americans who are infected in hospitals each year, at least 99,000 of them die from those infections.
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"Superbugs and Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs)
From hospitals to your community, superbugs are everywhere"
Verywellhealth.com/mrsa-c-diff-superbug-hospital-infections-2614867
"Coincidentally," I've never contracted any kind of infection at my doctor's private practice in all of the years I've been going there.
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Incidentally, I find it amusing that you are concerned about superbugs in an OSHA-regulated US teaching hospital like Johns Hopkins, yet are perfectly content with getting a surgery done in a country where you can't drink the water.
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LOL, it's not like surgery is being done on the streets in those countries. And most people would probably rather stay in the U.S. if it weren't for the exorbitant medical and dental care costs.
(Sorry about the lack of formatting in my post. For some reason, all of a sudden I no longer have the option to use options like bolding or linking text.)
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