Reply #12: Letter of complaint [View All]

[Ellen Forradalom]

since I'm not always good at speaking up at the time (kind of hard to do so when your jaw is on the ground):

I recently had an appointment with Dr.____. I have no complaint with the service or the dental care I received. But I will not return to the practice for followup care.

I was dismayed to hear him address me as "honey" and say I have an "itty-bitty mouth." I am a forty-five year old engineer, not a six-year-old child. I suspect Dr. _____ would not have used baby talk or diminutives with my male colleagues.

I will seek out a dentist who addresses his clients respectfully.