WHO doesn't want an extra hit of novocaine when the dentist is masochistically drilling holes through your pearly whites?
But perhaps some dentists take the dispensing of drugs a little too far, like the pair of Virginia Beach dentists in the United States who used patients as drug mules.
The Drug Enforcement Administration shut the pair's practice down after finding they had prescribed more than 46,000 hydrocodone pills, 20,000 pills of carisoprodol and 8,000 oxycodone pills to patients who never suffered from dental ailments.
The DEA's report also claimed dental work was performed in exchange for pills being handed off to dealers by the patient.
With any luck they might escape penalty by the skin of their teeth - but this looks quite doubtful.
Employee welfare checks or an invasion of privacy? That's the question being asked by many workers as the trend of workplace health surveillance surges.
The rise of digital fitness trackers have made it possible for companies to monitor the health of its staff in real time, as Chris Zubko recently found out after returning from bypass surgery.
The very second he entered the office, he received this text from his boss: "Man! I noticed your steps have picked up. Two times you worked out this week. Good!"
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