"So I say, what do you mean you have to think about it?" Said Dr. Peter Shia, regaling colleagues about a woman who hesitated when he proposed a costly treatment to address an esoteric bite issue. "I don’t care if you’re just 'here for a cleaning,'" he added. "Don’t come into my office looking for oral care if you’re not ready to drop some cash."
His disgust seemed to be rooted in an economic theory that requires residents of affluent areas like Marin to acquiesce to any monetary demand immediately. "Though it does hold water in the abstract," said Brent Slome, an expert on resource allocation, "in practice these people are under financial attack from all sides," he continued. "Once the plumbers and childcare providers take their cut, there's nothing left for whatever this dentist is talking about."
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