{"id":8907,"date":"2011-04-20T07:14:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T11:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8907"},"modified":"2011-04-20T07:14:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T11:14:56","slug":"one-size-rules-dont-fit-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/20\/one-size-rules-dont-fit-all\/","title":{"rendered":"One size rules don&#8217;t fit all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dentists who have their spouses on their patient list are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthzone.ca\/health\/newsfeatures\/article\/977389--ontario-law-means-dentists-who-treat-their-spouses-are-guilty-of-sex-abuse?bn=1\" target=\"_blank\">running the risk of losing their licenses<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dentists are permitted to treat their spouses &mdash; but they better not have sex.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, dentists who have sex with their spouses better not be messing around with their teeth.<\/p>\n<p>This is the current law of the land in Ontario, one that many dentists are secretly flouting and calling \u201cdumb\u201d and \u201cstupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <em>Star<\/em> earlier this week, Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews conceded the dentists may have a point and has agreed to review the restriction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Chris Greaves for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dentists who have their spouses on their patient list are running the risk of losing their licenses: Dentists are permitted to treat their spouses &mdash; but they better not have sex. Put another way, dentists who have sex with their spouses better not be messing around with their teeth. This is the current law of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,66,9],"tags":[52,322,87,661],"class_list":["post-8907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-cancon","category-health-science","category-law","tag-absurd","tag-nannystate","tag-ontario","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2jF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8908,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions\/8908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}