As
if going to the dentist wasn't nerve-racking enough, now you have to worry
about your dentist being intoxicated while he's in your mouth. Meet Dr. Robert
Garelick from Lindenhurst, New York. He was recently pulled out of his Long
Island office in handcuffs after his dental hygienist smelled booze on his
breath and caught him administering Novocain to the wrong side of a patient's
mouth. The hygienist, Kimberly Curtis said that she observed Dr. Garelick
looking for cavities in the right side of the patient’s mouth, but the cavities
were on the left side. When she pointed this out to the dentist, he ordered
more Novocain for the patient. So, basically, he wanted to numb the whole
patient's mouth. This is unbelievable! This is supposed to be some guy that we
are supposed to trust with our mouths?
Apparently,
this wasn't the first incident, where Dr. Garelick was boozed up on the job.
Curtis told the police that once he showed up to work so wasted that he had to
call his wife because he could barely stand. I think that's pretty
professional! This is definitely the type of dentist that I want working on my
mouth! What make people act this way? What you do after you're done working on
people's mouths is your own business. Why would you get drunk and put people's
lives into your own drunk hands? This is such an atrocity! Anyway, after
noticing Dr. Garelick's wobbly behavior this past Monday, she texted co-worker,
Dina Fara, who called 911. According to Curtis, she sent the text after the drunken
dentist used a drill to treat another patient who had a chipped tooth. She
said, "He was filing the tooth down. When you're using that drill, you
have to be very careful and have a steady hand." Garelick, clearly, did
not have a steady hand.
Curtis
went on to say that before Garelick treated the patient with the chipped tooth,
he slipped into his office where she noticed he was drinking from a white and
purple squeeze bottle. She said that at first, she didn't think anything of it
until he walked past her and a strong odor of alcohol slapped her in the face.
Curtis said that while Garelick was drilling on the patient's tooth, she went
into his office and found the bottle filled with vodka under his desk. It was
then that she knew she had to text Fara out of concern for the patients.
Dr.
Garelick claimed he only had a couple of beers with pizza during lunch on
Monday, but later confessed to being wasted on this way to the precinct. He was
charged with a misdemeanor reckless endangerment. Garelick's attorney was quick
to point out that no patient was injured during this incident. Is that even
serious? It sounds like the lawyer is as much of a quack as the dentist is! It
doesn't matter if any patients were injured! The point is they could have been
injured because your client was a drunken mess and put their lives in jeopardy!
Someone like this should not be allowed to practice medicine or work on
people's teeth! I hope for all of our sakes, Dr. Garelick gets stripped of his
dentistry license. He doesn't deserve to have it. I don't care if he's a family
man or does a lot for the community. He put people's lives in danger and he
needs to pay for that. The truth is that someone like him will probably get a
slap on the wrist, unfortunately, Curtis and Fara will be fired, and he will
continue to get drunk while he works, and next time he will really hurt
somebody. I say strip him of his license now!
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