Hi Zugumba,
Your post makes me think; where to draw the line between the
area of responsibilty of an oral surgeon and a ENT-surgeon?
In the US that is.
Hans
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>Hans Lennros wrote in message ...
>>Hans (the nitpicker)
>>>It's nitpicking over nothing. When Joel, or any other US dentist, says that
>a dentist shouldn't practice medicine, it is clearly (or ought to be)
>understood by every US dentist what this means. Such a remark is loaded
>with historical, legal, and cultural ramifications. The distinction is
>therefore arbitrary, but is real in the minds of dentists practicing here.
>There is no argument that dentistry is the treatment of part of the human
>body, that it affects and is affected by what is going on in the rest of the
>body, and is really a subspecialty of "medical practice" in the most
>general sense. But when a dentist in the US uses such phrasing, other
>dentists in the US understand what is meant. Unfortunately, this aspect of
>the phrasing isn't easily conveyed across cultural borders and must seem
>confused or contradictory to someone practicing outside of a society where
>such a phrase and its peculiar history are understood. I understand what
>Joel meant by such a statement, but I can see how someone in, say, Sweden,
>might find his statement absurd.
>>>
