A dentist who pulled out an elderly woman’s teeth without anaesthetic “to teach her a lesson” has been thrown out of the profession.
David Quelch left the 87-year-old with blood pouring from her mouth after she made a complaint about previous treatment at his hands, a discipline hearing was told yesterday.
He was found guilty of serious professional misconduct by the General Dental Council yesterday and the committee ordered his name be removed from the register.
Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It’s a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine (IOM), preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually. Many such errors result from unclear abbreviations and dosage indications and illegible writing on some of the 3.2 billion prescriptions written in the U.S. every year.
I’ve always wondered why the doctor’s office couldn’t send an email or some other electronic communication to the pharmacist, seems like it would save time and money as well as reduce errors.
Somewhat related, why do we have to carry a piece of paper in our automobiles that claims we have insurance? It’s very easy to create a fake one. Shouldn’t law enforcement be able to run our driver’s license or license plate and be able to verify our insurance coverage with some database?Â
Optimus Prime (born 1971) is a U.S. Army Ohio National Guard firefighter who had his name legally changed to Optimus Prime in May of 2001, on his 30th birthday. He claims to have done this because the fictional character of the same name from the Transformers was like a father figure when he was growing up. The name appears on his driver’s license, military ID, and uniform. Prime’s military unit, the 5694th Tactical Crash Rescue Unit, is currently deployed on Operation Enduring Freedom. Prime was recalled from Baghdad in Iraq in June 2003 following a pair of family emergencies. His former name has not been publicly disclosed.
Mr Prime has a wife, Vanessa, and four children: Nick, Jessie, Mike, and Shyann.
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