by Jule Kucera | May 16, 2021 | Blog
I did things at Hennepin County Medical Center that most hygienists never do: I cleaned someone’s teeth in the O.R. I asked a teenage sex worker about her practices, to inform my opinion of the ulcerated lesion in her mouth. I called Social Services when I asked the...
by Jule Kucera | May 9, 2021 | Blog
After the dentist fired me from ‘the good dental practice,’ I quit the pedo mill. It was ruining me as a hygienist. My next two part-time jobs were in a Minneapolis community clinic that catered to the LGBTQ+ community, and a suburban office whose patients included...
by Jule Kucera | May 2, 2021 | Blog
My first career was as a dental hygienist, and the first job I got after graduating was in a ‘pedo mill,’ meaning a pediatric dental office where the hygienists saw a ridiculous number of patients each day. Our schedule was a kid every fifteen minutes, which meant I...
by Jule Kucera | Apr 25, 2021 | Blog
When I was thirteen, it seemed that the only way to make money was a paper route or babysitting. Boys had paper routes, girls babysat. I didn’t particularly like children, but they were a necessary part of the enterprise. Fifty cents an hour was the prevailing rate....
