Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is a peculiar politeness that descends on people in medical and dental settings. Adults who would happily query a restaurant bill will sit silently in a chair while something hurts, because the person doing it is busy, and seems to know what they are doing, and it feels rude to interrupt. So they say nothing. They get through it. And then they quietly decide never to come back. I have been on the other side of this, and I can tell you that no clinician wants that. A patient…
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