I went for a few years without a dental checkup because I couldn't get time to do it during the hours the dentist was open. (Granted, I also didn't choose to sp

I went for a few years without a dental checkup because I couldn't get time to do it during the hours the dentist was open. (Granted, I also didn't choose to spend my vacation getting checkups.) In many programs, there is simply so little slack in the system that absence is acceptable only for emergencies. And, sure, we can talk about how that's bad, unacceptable, etc., but that's the reality that everyone I know lived during residency.