Dr. Marco Laguna is a handsome intelligent professional man who instilled confidence as took a careful history, performed an examination, did an X-ray, and discussed my options. His English is excellent. He then performed a 'pain free" root canal. Then he took a follow up X-ray showing me his splendid work.
I was then booked for an appointment with Dra. Mayra Miranda, Odontologia estetica. She is a tall beautiful intelligent young woman with a sense of humour and excellent English. Whereas Dr. Marco Laguna worked quietly, Dra. Mayra Miranda chatted pleasantly with her helpful staff during the procedures. Both approaches were calming and reassuring.
Dr. Mayra Miranada is also in Coral Dental Center where it seemed there were a couple of more dentists working as well. They had at least three, maybe four modern dental surgical suites with several staff in addition to reception. All were sensitive to my concerns.
Dr. Mayra Miranda saw me initially to build a core, make casts and put in a temporary crown. I returned for another short visit when she removed the temporary crown and installed the permanent ceramic crown. My bite and appearance are just fine.
The cost was at about a half what I would have paid in Canada. Frankly, I enjoyed not losing time from work and especially liked recuperating in the sun on the beach. I would thoroughly recommend Coral Dental Center to anyone who needs dental work while they're in Playa Del Carmen. I am very thankful. Both doctors spoke fluent Spanish as well.
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The mock trial was a piece de resistance. What a marvellous teaching tool. In a light hearted comedy about an obviously serious and tragic subject, the participants exposed the main errors that the conference itself had been addressing. Seeing them played out before us was extremely elucidating as well as unsettling. I confess I saw my own errors, as a treating clinician, in those of the family physician Dr. Goodman's 'report. Mr. Justice Preston, playing himself, the Judge, gave an Oscar winning performance alone for witticism and repartee, especially with the brilliant if dubious defence attorney, Terrence Robertson QC, who acted on behalf of Dumb E. Driver.
The court recorder, playing herself, and using a romance novel, had the experts sworn in.
The exchanges between Mark Frobb, playing Dr. Goodman, and Terrence Robertson were reminiscent of the high art of English parliamentary banter. It was positively 'droll' and I can't recall another time I've heard such amusing debate as to characterize it with this adjective. Danielle Daroux, the plaintiff, "Paula Passenger's attorney, was reminiscent of the lawyer performances of Glen Close as she literally disembowelled the testimony of Dr. Bones, the arthropod expert, played by Stanley Leete, clearly caught wi
th his medical knickers in an embarrassingly major twist.
Stanley Leete's performance of wide eyed innocence caused the audience to break out with spontaneous applause. Judge Preston increased the disruption sternly castigating us, the audience, for our unruly behaviour. Beth Inglis, playing the OT expert witness was so amusing as she answered any direct questions with cute cupidity,tangents and jargon.
Douglas Lee, playing the psychologist, "Ima Testing" sounded really very erudite with only occasional lapses into high comedy being examined by Danielle Dareux, until Terrence Robertson guilefully discredited most everything he had said. What was educational though was observing Dr. Lee attempting to maintain professional and scientific neutrality as hard as that was in the artfulness of this particular court. In later summing up and discussion lead by Justice Marion Allen the key 'take home' issues regarding expert testimony were reviewed.
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