I just turned away a patient in pain.  I am covering for a local guy who is
on vacation.  One of his very nice patients had a tooth go necrotic after
crown prep and temporary (I try not judge my local peers--yea,,,, I'll need
to talk to him about CEREC).  Anyway, we snuck this person in to evaluate
the problem.  Needs RCT--now.  I had a patient scheduled for a long
procedure (2 hours) coming in shortly, so I sent the person in pain off to
the local endodontist for pain relief and RCT.  Then, the patient for the 2
hour block does not bother to show up.  :-(      We could have treated the
person in pain and gotten rid of symptoms sooner for the patient.  Instead,
the pain patient had to drive to a different office, go through the
screening process again, wait to get seen between other patients, etc.

Argh!