u/DumbUsername24

We've been married a long time, but my spouse has slowly developed worsening halitosis. I started giving subtle hints, and eventually I came at it from a genuine medical concern, but my spouse is a medical professional, and admittedly they tend to be the "not the best" patients and overrule the medical concerns of non-medical professionals, and sometimes even colleagues.

I'll hint that I need a breath mint (and that's my little signal that they need one too) and that helps temporarily, but it doesn't seem that any amount of brushing, flossing or mouthwash can stem the issue for more than a couple hours or so.

There are some dental issues that resulted from a poor upbringing but we're getting the more serious issues either resolved or treated again this year (a root canal/crown and gum disease treatment, otherwise dentist said teeth are in good shape). They also started taking medicine (an H2 blocker) a couple years ago, but I'm not sure there's been a formal diagnosis with anything other than heartburn. There is also a minor history of reproductive cancers in their family.

Other than that, they're very height weight proportional (small frame, actually) and healthy. My trouble is that I love my spouse to death and I've tried several times approaching with the "I'm concerned it could be something more serious" approach but to little avail. I've read some other older posts here dealing with same question of halitosis, and candidly reading some of those comments got me even more concerned that there could be something more serious medically happening. So, I'm thinking of escalating it and doing one or more of several things:

1. Have a private conversation with our dentist to opine randomly on their next visit.
2. Schedule an ENT and/or gastro appt and have the same discussion and eval more intensely

I guess really my question boils down to this: for anyone who is or is married to a medical professional, do you have any other suggestions on how to move the conversation into action?

I think deep down they know there's an issue, but it's embarrassing for them to confront it head on, whereas after reading some of the other posts comments, I'm even more concerned it could be something more serious.

A friend contacted me recently with some interesting information regarding a home/land he purchased about 5 yrs ago in the great lakes area. FYI I am in the finance/tax advisory realm, not real estate directly.

He took out a VA loan on a single-family home with acreage. He recently had a family member stay with him who discovered that the single-family home was actually a mobile home that was put on a concrete slab and "encased" in siding with a roof to make it look like it wasn't a mobile home. He paid for an inspector and nothing of the sort was noted.

He conducted some property research and realized the land had first listed as a single-family residence in the early 90s but passed several times between related family before it was sold to an unrelated LLC which eventually sold it to him.

Recently he had plumbers come to the home for an issue with the well (located in the home) and the 1 hr plumbing job turned into a 6 hr job because the main came directly into the water heater with NO CUTOFF, which the plumbers had to install.

I advised him to contact multiple real estate attorneys in his state ASAP, coordinate documentation of everything he has to date, and say nothing to insurance or VA at this point.

Any other advice/recommendations would be greatly appreciated.