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8. I'll bet the rich patients

Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #6)

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 03:15 PM

Feb 2013

make it obvious, if not come right out and say it. I've seen it. It's a power thing..."what good is having all that money if you can't lord it over everybody else?"

In the OP, PC told us some of the clues his patients said to him. Middle-class people down own huge yachts with crews on them, and ordinary people don't have their "names plastered all over Philadelphia."

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Sunday Dental Thread: Treating the Wealthy Edition [View all] PCIntern Feb 2013 OP

" They are rich beyond comprehension and that is that" hedgehog Feb 2013 #1

Wrong, maestro... PCIntern Feb 2013 #2

Thank you. You confirm exactly what I suspected. Duer 157099 Feb 2013 #3

No matter the howling the rw does about the poor the only entitled feeling I have met are the rich. libtodeath Feb 2013 #4

Right u are! PCIntern Feb 2013 #5

How would a dentist have any idea what the net worth of a patient is? Nye Bevan Feb 2013 #6

I'll bet the rich patients Wednesdays Feb 2013 #8

So it is more a complaint about "ostentatious" people as opposed to "rich" people. Nye Bevan Feb 2013 #9

Believe me, PCIntern Feb 2013 #10

If you read my intro, what I said was PCIntern Feb 2013 #13

Toyota is the number one make of car purchased by millionaires. Nye Bevan Feb 2013 #14

you sound a tad defensive. . annabanana Feb 2013 #16

LOL Nye Bevan Feb 2013 #18

It's not at all surprising that they drive Toyotas mainer Feb 2013 #19

I know quite a few millionaires mainer Feb 2013 #17

K&R Wednesdays Feb 2013 #7

I wasn't discussing that today... PCIntern Feb 2013 #11

I've gotten the impression that the most expedient way to become rich is to always act in your own gtar100 Feb 2013 #12

Most lawsuits against professionals I know have been by lower income patients mainer Feb 2013 #15

Wherein my post did I mention lawsuits...? PCIntern Feb 2013 #20

Great post malaise Feb 2013 #21