Reply #33: If I were a dentist

[Bluenorthwest]

I'd try to get my peers to stop filling the waiting room with Conde Nast Traveller and other luxery lifestyle mags.
My perio recently retired. He sent me a photo of his 'ranch' the same day I sent him $1600 for an hour's work. Movie star, Sun King type of 'ranch'.
So, they get rich, not well off, rich, and then they brag about it, litter the office with catalogs for hand made goods and 'exclusive' small cruises.
The yachths and airplanes and the photos of 'my 12th trip to Venice' and all of it make paying the enormous fees a bit more difficult than it needs to be. Most of the dentists make too much money, and they are also very rude about it, in a way that amazes me. Public displays of consumption in the office are common as can be. "That's my wife buying shoes in Milan. Please pay the receptionist as you leave."