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Undertoad · 11-11-2008, 12:49 PM

I had the exact same experience and even tried to get G00gle to link it. Because, fuck them! Fucking asshole dentists!

First, get to the REAL problem. What we have here is a stupid dentist who googled himself, found your page #2 for his name, took it entirely personally and got massively irate.

We have seen this happen many times in similar circumstances, often with massive, inappropriate escalations. "Oh no, somebody wrote something bad about me on the Internet! This CANNOT STAND!" People have been known to take weird revenge. Calling people's employers. Calling people's spouses. Posting their real information on the net. That kind of thing.

But what we have here is a case of this massive anger, and desire to escalate, combined with arrogance and money, and when you have arrogance and money you believe that you can use that money to play the system.

So he then called his lawyer, and said sue for whatever you think you can sue for. And the lawyer, who certainly understood all of the above, accepted, because the lawyer knows the dentist has money and is irate. Dentist screwed you? You've gotten your revenge, because the lawyer is now screwing the dentist.

Now, if YOU have money of any kind, you have many interesting options. I agree with Glatt that you should involve your own lawyer, who will know may more options than we could suggest here.

I would think that an actual judge would see the massive, inappropriate escalation for exactly what it is, and would throw it all out on lack of merit. Of course there's also the possibility that he's with a lawyer who knows a judge and can make stuff stick. But if your lawyer says the whole thing will blow over, then here's what I'd do:

I'd keep the site up... and I'd document the lawsuit, with scans of all related documents. I might make a few changes -- like, if I wrote "Dr. X is a scumbag scam artist" I might change that to "In my opinion, dentists who promote this procedure and fail to warranty their work when it fails are not working in the patient's best interests." Then I'd call Dr. X to tell him that if I didn't receive a complete refund in one week, I'd notify all local media of what was happening.

I'm just that kind of guy, you know?

11-11-2008, 12:49 PM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I had the exact same experience and even tried to get G00gle to link it. Because, fuck them! Fucking asshole dentists! First, get to the REAL problem. What we have here is a stupid dentist who googled himself, found your page #2 for his name, took it entirely personally and got massively irate. We have seen this happen many times in similar circumstances, often with massive, inappropriate escalations. "Oh no, somebody wrote something bad about me on the Internet! This CANNOT STAND!" People have been known to take weird revenge. Calling people's employers. Calling people's spouses. Posting their real information on the net. That kind of thing. But what we have here is a case of this massive anger, and desire to escalate, combined with arrogance and money, and when you have arrogance and money you believe that you can use that money to play the system. So he then called his lawyer, and said sue for whatever you think you can sue for. And the lawyer, who certainly understood all of the above, accepted, because the lawyer knows the dentist has money and is irate. Dentist screwed you? You've gotten your revenge, because the lawyer is now screwing the dentist. Now, if YOU have money of any kind, you have many interesting options. I agree with Glatt that you should involve your own lawyer, who will know may more options than we could suggest here. I would think that an actual judge would see the massive, inappropriate escalation for exactly what it is, and would throw it all out on lack of merit. Of course there's also the possibility that he's with a lawyer who knows a judge and can make stuff stick. But if your lawyer says the whole thing will blow over, then here's what I'd do: I'd keep the site up... and I'd document the lawsuit, with scans of all related documents. I might make a few changes -- like, if I wrote "Dr. X is a scumbag scam artist" I might change that to "In my opinion, dentists who promote this procedure and fail to warranty their work when it fails are not working in the patient's best interests." Then I'd call Dr. X to tell him that if I didn't receive a complete refund in one week, I'd notify all local media of what was happening. I'm just that kind of guy, you know?