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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

D.U.I.-DRILLING UNDER THE INFLUENCE.....

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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