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Not so Fast – Old Man
By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDS – el Viejo
Here’s something interesting I found on Courthouse News.com about Germany’s mandatory retirement age for dentists.
“EU Court OK’s Age Limits for Firefighters, Dentists” (no byline).
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/01/14/European_Courts.htm
European Court of Justice
“The European Court of Justice released a ruling reconciling a ban on age discrimination with German age limits for firefighting and dentistry.”
The article continues:
“For dentists, the high court agreed with the national court that an age limit is justified by the need to protect patients from declining performance.”
As we wait for octogenarian Gordon Christensen DDS to discover and describe the lame “declining performance” claim in that statement, let me focus on the rest of the paragraph:
“But it said that such a limit must apply across the board, not only for panel-certified dentists within the public sector, but also for private practitioners.”
Touting the Next Generation of Dentists
It gets worse. The EU openly states that it intends to hand young dentists (and mid-level providers?) an immediate chance at making swell money with a huge demand for dental care that will arise when thousands of thriving dental practices across Europe close.
“The Court of Justice also agreed that such a limit is reasonable to provide work positions for young dentists, but only if it can be proven to fulfill this purpose.”
Assessment
Hell, I’ll probably still have kids in college if US HIT stakeholders fall in love with this plan. Not only that, but since thousands of dental practices like mine will be up for sale at the same time, the business I’ve built over the last 27 years will be worthless on the open market.
So what are my plans? I hope the ADA is adequately protecting Americans from such folly.
And – if not?
Porque hablo español, tengo la intención de mover el culo viejo a una ciudad en la costa en México y sacar dientes a los extranjeros ilegales a su regreso desde el norte. ¡Viva el NAFTA!
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Just how nimble is the Medical-Executive Post?
Nobody is quicker than the ground-breaking Internet publication.
https://healthcarefinancials.wordpress.com/
The ME-P platform, primarily an interactive outlet for financial information concerning the healthcare industry, is so nimble, and has such untested potential that we casually scoop industry giants – even in the dental news business. And we’re not even breathing hard, friends.
For example: ME-P published “Who Admires the EU Healthcare Model?” on January 15, which describes the age-limitation requirements for dentists in Germany.
https://healthcarefinancials.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/who-admires-the-eu-healthcare-model/
Recently, DrBicuspid.com’s editorial committee determined that the news from Europe was finally important enough to share with readers on DrBicuspid’s restricted, slow-moving Website covering dental industry news. Yesterday, two weeks behind ME-P, Carlheinz Swaczyna DDS posted “Germany grapples with age limits for dentists” on DrBicuspid.
http://www.drbicuspid.com/index.aspx?sec=nws&sub=rad&pag=dis&ItemId=303742&wf=34
Dr. Swaczyna practiced in Germany as recently as 2007, and writes for the weekly German dental publication DZW – Die Zahnarztwoche. Ich habe ihn gelesen.
I wonder how quickly DrBicuspid.com publishes financial news.
D. Kellus Pruitt; DDS
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Dr. Pruitt,
As always, thank you for your informed posts. And, we are very nimble indeed.
The above kind comments however may be due more to familiarity with the German healthcare system, and pure happenstance, than any prescient journalistic focus on our part.
You see, I have been to Germany multiple times to lecture, teach and operate. Our team home-base is usually Marien Hospital near Stuttgart, Germany. The schedule for a typical day includes morning surgical duties in the OR, followed by an afternoon of didactic lecturing, and concludes with evening post-op rounds and a pre-operative clinical conference in preparation for the next day. OK-OK, we do down a few warm beers in the basement rathskeller [“council cellar”, modern spelling], too.
http://www.marienhospital-stuttgart.de/
Nevertheless, an interesting sideline is how the German health system does not preclude nationalized doctors from practicing private medicine and dentistry in the evenings and weekends. In fact, my more current business duties include helping German physicians set up private office practices [no dentists, yet] that are much like the cash-only models that are emerging in the States today.
The rich irony, of course, is that these medical professionals [and increasingly German patients fed up with socialized medicine] are slowly morphing to a private health system – while our politicians [and some US citizens] now seem more inclined to envy a European one; so go figure!
Fraternally
Dave
David Edward Marcinko
http://www.MedicalExecutivePost.com
[Publisher-in-Chief]
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