Dentists' odds of committing suicide are 6.64 times greater than the rest of the working population. Why? Think about it. How many of us actually want to go to the dentist? The pediatrician is okay, because they give you stickers and you're usually too sick to care that they're going to talk to you like you're a seven year old and give you a shot. But the dentist? He/she spends their entire day prodding through your tongue and spit while you're either crying or giving them a look of total grief and hatred. And even when they're not having to deal with emotionally disturbed children who'd love nothing more than to chuck those metal utensils into their eyes (and often try to), they have to endure those looks of haughty arrogance they receive from doctors who, though have not actually spent any more time in medical school or otherwise training for their profession, see dentists as the lowest physician on the totem pole and refuse to give them any respect. After all they are only dealing with your teeth. Who really needs those?
If a dentists' main source of aggravation, however, is indeed the looks of scorn they receive from medical physicians, they'll be happy to know that those doctors are just beneath them with suicide rates, a reported 3 percent of deaths due to suicide come from the medical doctoring profession. If you're going down, bring them down with you, right?
If you're interested in finding more about suicide rates according to profession, there's a great site below where all of the information discussed, and more, can be found.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2301/do-dentists-have-the-highest-suicide-rate
And next time you go to see your dentist for your annual cleaning, make sure to give him a big hug.
You know he probably needs one.
-M.
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