{"id":18780,"date":"2019-03-29T20:15:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T00:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=18780"},"modified":"2019-03-29T20:15:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T00:15:40","slug":"wrong-number-from-a-gastroenterologists-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2019\/03\/29\/wrong-number-from-a-gastroenterologists-office.html","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Number From a Gastroenterologist’s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

I appreciated the earnestness of the woman’s attempt to inform someone of their upcoming appointment. She dialed the wrong number and found me. The idea of a missed doctor’s appointment reminded me of another element of the dentist shakedown I experienced in November. The dentist who claimed I needed 4 root canals, two crowns, and that my wisdom teeth needed to be sawed down had a sign in her office saying that patients will be charged $25 for not showing up. Doctors have every right to levy such a charge but it is rare that they do, and rarer still that the threat is posted for all to see. She was bad news, that dentist. I got a second opinion from a midtown dentist who just laughed outloud at the notion I needed any kind of dental work besides a cleaning. That’s my new dentist.<\/p>\n

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I appreciated the earnestness of the woman’s attempt to inform someone of their upcoming appointment. She dialed the wrong number and found me. The idea of a missed doctor’s appointment reminded me of another element of the dentist shakedown I experienced in November. The dentist who claimed I needed 4 root canals, two crowns, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phone-call","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-4SU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18782,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18780\/revisions\/18782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}