This man is why I’m terrified of the dentist. As a child, he never believed that I was in pain while he had his assistant Kathy hold me down and drilled away. I have so much anxiety about the dentist and get so amped up about it that I block the effect of the novocaine. He would ignore my convulsions and tears and scoff at my pain. It took almost three decades for a dentist to tell me that I needed a sedative before dental work. Of course that’s after years of avoiding dentists at all costs. I will never forgive him. Or her.