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Dr. Yank: Washington Prison Dentist Nearly Kills Patient

by Rick Anderson

If anyone really needed another reason to fear the dentist, Dr. Joel Diven provided it one day in May 2006, when a state prisoner climbed into his dental chair with a toothache.

State investigators say Diven, 72, a Department of Corrections dentist at McNeil Island Corrections Center, ...

 

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