re: Dr Keith died

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He cut out an ingrown fingernail I had and only sprayed some child shite on my finger and gave me a tongue depresser to bite on. The way he got me to tolerate it was to say, "Quit being a baby. Babies cry. Are you a baby?" Worked like a charm

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Sounds like one of my old instructors in dental school. He won all kinds of awards for pediatric dentistry. His "technique" he liked to teach us involved grasping the child by the shoulders, lifting him a foot or so out of the chair, then slamming him back down in the chair. It greatly enhanced cooperation from unruly children. Nowadays it's a surefire path to a lawsuit. Nothing like the good ole days, I guess.