One of my favorite phrases, comes off especially well with a Brooklyn accent:

葉はのは

皆はお歯医者さんがあまり好きではないのですね！もちろん歯科学は面白いそうですが、人が訪れると全然楽しんでいないので、歯医者をするのはちょっと気がめいてしまうことだと思います。

今日のレッスンの先生の話し方は泊まっていた旅館の管理人の話し方を思い出させます。この旅館は良かったけど、支払うの時になると問題があったから（クーポンの問題なんです）、あまりいい思い出しですよね…

English biography of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Conrad_R%C3%B6ntgen

For anyone who cares

One time when I was in college I drove up to Wisconsin to help a friend who was getting his molars out. When they released him to my care he seemed completely normal and lucid… until he walked directly into the wall opposite the exit. He was doing all kinds of crazy stuff, but I needed him to direct me back to his parents’ house. When we got back to his place, he seemed to have fallen asleep - only like 2 minutes later I hear him yell that he’s driving (himself!) to the pharmacy to get his painkillers. I quickly joined him and took the keys, and when we arrived we were at the local “Piggly Wiggly.” An establishment I never expected to find myself in in my life. The next day he didn’t remember a thing.

So that’s kind of my worst AND best dentist story. Sorry, there was no way I was going to even attempt the Japanese on that one.

Actually, there is an over-supply of dentists in Japan, and the competition to attract and retain patients is fierce. Most new lawyers are struggling just to pay for the equipment in their dentist offices. My experience is that at the least indication of pain, my dentist stops and injects more anesthetic. On the other hand, the supply of full lawyers (bengoshi) is strictly limited, with only a small number allowed to pass the bar examination each year. Good luck finding one to help sue a dentist!

Peter, as for your trip to the proctologist when you needed medicine for your lung infection, you should have hopped on the Namboku subway line and come down here to Shirokanedai. The old name for our Institute of Medical Science was the Institute of Infectious Diseases, and we still have a heavy concentration of doctors in that field. Our hospital is small (only 120 beds), but we do have a walk-in clinic, waiting times are pretty short, and they’ll assign you to see the doctor most appropriate for your symptoms. If you have any trouble finding us, just ask Yoshikai-san.

Hahahahahahaha!
The drill scared the living $#@% out of me!! Too real!