I had a dentist who insisted on trying to engage me in deep theological discussions while my mouth was full of fingers or cotton or some other impediment. On a tangential topic, it’s said that dentists have the highest rate of suicide among health professionals. Supposedly, it’s because those who take their own lives can’t live with the burden of being the cause of so much pain for so many people (regardless of whether they’re really causing pain or not).
I had a dentist who insisted on trying to engage me in deep theological discussions while my mouth was full of fingers or cotton or some other impediment. On a tangential topic, it’s said that dentists have the highest rate of suicide among health professionals. Supposedly, it’s because those who take their own lives can’t live with the burden of being the cause of so much pain for so many people (regardless of whether they’re really causing pain or not).