gee…from the sound of the column, maybe the teeming millions are getting to our favorite columnist…
Chris
Hi! Um, is this in reference to a specific column or Staff Report, or is it just a general Great Thought? 
Silly Goose. Suicide is on today’s home page. Don’t you refresh that every 10 minutes? ::rolleyes:
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In the version of Cecil’s Column on suicide by dentists that I read in my weekly free paper (NY Press), it had a short aside stating that if you wanted sources for the statistics used, you should go to www.straightdope.com. I patiently waited until today for the online column to come up so I could see the statistics.
Imagine my surprise when I found that the online column not only did not have the sources, but the aside promising them had been deleted.
I’m sure that this was a minor production error that will soon be corrected. I wouldn’t want to have to face an enraged Cecil screaming Littttttle Eddddddd!
sorry, first time post. but can you imagine…getting bombarded with dozens, hundreds of questions a day, many of which are just weird enough to get your curiosity bump itching? those questions that just have to be answered?
Doctors, including dentists, have access to controlled
substances, and some of these suicides may be euthanasia.
Still technically suicide, of course, but it would punch
holes in the theory that the stress of working in health
fields ‘causes’ higher suicide rates.
cue MASH theme
Makes sense, you know, Dentists always look so down-in-the-mouth. Get is? Down-in-the-mouth, Dentist?
Well, someone had to say it.
*Well, someone had to say it. *
Tongue in cheek, I suppose.