The quoted debt was for a SPECIALTY. Unlike medical residencies, dental residencies pay no salary, and often cost quite a lot.
How about military service? I have a couple of friends who spent their initial practice of dentistry there.
Armed services have really cut back and are using more private contractors to treat service members now.
If one is lucky enough to be awarded a dental residency in the military, you will get paid your salary during school. (However, they made sure you were going to make the military a career before they selected you.) When I was in the Navy, however they had their own proprietary shorter residencies which were not usable in civilian life. For instance, an oral surgery residency might be 2 years when it might be 4 years to be board certified on the outside. The goal was always to give the minimum training necessary to do the specialty work.
Com’on Henrius you’re bein too nice… I’ll bet you say that to all the high school dropouts…
I have watched almost every “To Catch A Smuggler” episode on TV and many episodes concern customs and TSA agents who have the ability to interpret rules it seems.
Still it appears that RX should be carried by the person on the label, the reccomended amount is a 90 day supply. Otherwise they should be shipped (and that does not mean that the package will not be inspected anyway), so good luck with that.
I remember back in the 90’s going to the Bahamas and the day I was to depart, I had a tooth ache. I went to the local drug store and saw an old favorite for that, Paregoric. It came in a little bottle and parents would rub it on babys gums for teething pain. It was also put in antidiarreal medicine. We always had in in the medicine cabinet. I liked the slight taste of licorice and could put up with the slight stinging as the pain went away. As with all medicines that seem towork, this one too was apparantly taken off the market. Now I know why. "Paregoric is a 4% opium tincture in which there is also benzoic acid, camphor, and anise oil. At the time I had no idea that this medicine that used to be available ‘over the counter’ in the U.S. and still was in other countries was now illegal without a prescription. In my case, coming in from the Bahamas with it to the U.S., if found, would have been swiftly confiscated. Seems druggies were taking this, boiling off the alcohol and ending up with opium.
It is amazing to me the drugs that require a Rx here in the US that I can buy OTC overseas. Statins, cardiac drugs, you name it. Often in Latin America the only drugs requiring Rx are psychotropic drugs.
Of course, they don’t have the out-of-control tort problem that the USA has. If a person kills themself self-prescribing heart medicine in El Salvador, that is just his family’stough luck.
Not the times I have been to small claims court.
Been there, done that. It is not worth the time unless the amount is fairly large. You usually win the judgement, but just try to collect. The patient might be self-employed. If his wage is garnished, he quits his job and you have to find out where his new job is.