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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / May 2005Interesting Pain Management
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1407775.html Dentist got patient drunk A dentist has been told to pay a patient £4,000 compensation after he got her drunk to carry out 14 root canal treatments in one day. The court in Munich heard the work would normally have been scheduled to be carried out over a course of several weeks. But the dentist, who was not named for legal reasons, decided to get everything out of the way in a mammoth 12 hour operation. He gave the woman large glasses of cognac in between drilling, telling her it would take the pain away. But the woman later complained of being in enormous pain and sued the dentist. > http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1407775.html > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > But the woman later complained of being in enormous pain and sued the > dentist. Things that make ya go hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Steve  SignatureMark & Steven Bornfeld DDS http://www.dentaltwins.com Brooklyn, NY 718-258-5001 >He gave the woman large glasses of cognac in between drilling, telling her >it would take the pain away. No wonder, should have used a good single malt Scotch. -- W_B Take out the G'RBAGE wubbabubbazG@RBAGEyahoo.com The woman must have been drunk before she stepped into the dentists office to allow herself to drink all that cognac. Didn't the dentist have to drill the teeth in preparation for crowns or could he have just filled them with amalgam or composite. Sounds like an Enquirer post. The dentist is lucky he wasn't booked for murder. Gail or manslaughter. Gail > http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1407775.html > He gave the woman large glasses of cognac in between drilling, telling her > it would take the pain away. I have tried a milder variation of that same experiment. At best, you end up with a drunk who still has a toothache. Alcohol is one of the most powerful OTC drugs you can buy, but it ain't a pain med. Vaughn >> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1407775.html >> He gave the woman large glasses of cognac in between drilling, telling her [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Vaughn In fact it actually reduces the pain threshold. -- W_B Take out the G'RBAGE wubbabubbazG@RBAGEyahoo.com Back in my dental school days, we had an old visiting professor from Loma Linda who told about his first job as a young dentist back in the 1920s or so. He was hired by a California gold mining company to take care of the dental needs of their gold miners way up in the mountains. Most of the dental treatment consisted of extractions. He kept a bottle of whiskey in the waiting room as the only anesthetic -- and didn't get much objection from the miners. They were welcome to two, three, or however many shots they wanted. Whatever happened to great job benefits like that? - dentaldoc |
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