Re: OT Dentist Fine

On Fri, 19 May 2006 16:49:12 GMT, Mike_B <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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In message <4d69a0F18mtl6U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, The Todal
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A mate of mine has just got back from the dentist. He was held up in
the traffic and was late so "missed his appointment" (I don't know how
late he was).

The dentist "fined" him forty quid!!

I thought this was spot on - and as he has said - he will never be
late/miss an appointment again.

(I think doctors should do the same)

Doctors who are doing private consultations will almost invariably charge
for a missed appointment. I have my doubts about 40 quid for a dentist and
I'd probably ask him how much of his time was wasted. If he had set aside a
long period of time to do a set of fillings for which he expected to charge
that sort of money, then fine.


I think I'd be asking him what he did with the £40's worth of my time as
I would hate to think that he wanted to charge me for time he spent
doing other work and therefore didn't waste at all.

In other words, it isn't really a "fine" so much as compensation for wasted
chargeable time.



If he wasted the time, yes. If he used it productively in other
chargeable work then its a penalty and I would argue an unenforceable
one.

I think it would be enforced by the patient being told that he was no
longer registered with that practice.
.

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