Adam Gaffen at The Boston Globe ‘blog log’ took note today of my post about dental care for the indigent (scroll down to ‘The Root of the Problem’).
The Globe has now contributed to my conspicuousness by highlighting things this “Brookline psychiatrist” has written several times. Even people I know around town with no idea what a ‘blog’ is read the Sunday papers. Doctors are taught to write their notes in medical records as if the patient about whom they are writing is going to read the chart (which, often enough of course, they do). If Globe item keep popping up, I might have to start to write my FmH posts as if my colleagues in the medical community are going to catch wind of some of the things I say. I didn’t want my comment about having to beg favors for the care of my patients from area dentists to be construed as casting aspersions on the generosity the local dental community shows to the dentally needy!
I don’t know why in the world they don’t join the 21st century; ironically this Globe column covering online phenomena has neither (in the print version) the URLs of the weblogs to which it refers nor (in the online version) any clickable links. Instead, they direct readers to the gathered links at www.universalhub.com/0521.html.
And finally, Adam, as long as I am quibbling, wasn’t the Morgellons post more interesting than the dental one this week?? (Got more comments…)
Addendum: Adam forwarded me some feedback he got regarding his column, which will obviously be of maximal interest to Boston-area readers:
I enjoyed reading your Blog Log on Sunday. I wanted
Eliot Gelwan and any other people out there to know
that there is some place for parents to take their
children for dental care that accepts Mass Health.
That place is called Kool Smiles and they have offices
in both Roxbury and Porter Square-Cambridge. Kool
Smiles is a very cool place with a big ball room for
children to jump and play inside!
Now Eliot won’t have to plead with dentista anymore!
Instead He can go to www.Koolsmilespc.com“
