And the outrage grows...Washington Dental Service CEO James Dwyer has ignited a firestorm response with his recent interview comment that dentists could make more money by, “Number one, they could start working five days a week,”. Unfortunately, when you review the raw interview footage at the link below it only gets worse as he states that dentists usually work 3 1/2 days a week. Wondering aloud, to no one in particular, just how many days a week does James Dwyer work for his $1.2 million dollar base salary?
We digress however. The nut of the issue here isn't how many days a dentist works, nor how many James Dwyer works. The issues are:
1. A dentists ability to provide excellent patient care and still make a reasonable profit so they can pay their employees living wages and benefits; and
2. WDS not paying taxes. Last year WDS made $1 Billion dollars in Washington as a "non-Profit" and provided an infinitesimal "social return" on that profit. (See our May 15th blog on WDS's "return" for 2011).
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