• @jcgA
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    216 hours ago

    I suppose you can’t blame your earlier dentists, though. How were they supposed to know? And if they automatically treated redheads differently, would that be racism?

    • @[email protected]
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      39 hours ago

      It’s not racist to treat patients differently when you’re talking about how likely they are to react to drugs. Children/teens tend to become bewildered and/or violent when waking up from anesthesia. It’s not ageist to prepare for a worse case scenario by calling all hands on deck to hold them down to prevent injury.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 hours ago

        Young men come up fighting as well. My ex-wife worked in surgery and got punched a few times. Don’t know what I’d be like now, but as a young men, back the hell up from the bed.

    • psychadlligoat
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      914 hours ago

      You ask, because certain physical characteristics are known to be linked more often with certain things than others