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24 Year Old Man Dies Of Toothache
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Wow... freaky how close this is to what's going on with my boyfriend..... Saw the thread and was like WHAT?
My boyfriend is 24, has a toothache, and went to emerge yesterday cuz his face was swollen and sore :0 He got a prescription we couldn't afford too...
luckily we have a friend in our building who gave us the money..
Now we have to find a dental surgeon (and probs more money) cuz his tooth can't be pulled cuz due to Esophageal Geitis (sp), acid has destroyed his back teeth...and this one had an infection years ago that literally shattered the tooth.... so its a whole bunch of bits that they can't really pull on very well.
My boyfriend is 24, has a toothache, and went to emerge yesterday cuz his face was swollen and sore :0 He got a prescription we couldn't afford too...
luckily we have a friend in our building who gave us the money..
Now we have to find a dental surgeon (and probs more money) cuz his tooth can't be pulled cuz due to Esophageal Geitis (sp), acid has destroyed his back teeth...and this one had an infection years ago that literally shattered the tooth.... so its a whole bunch of bits that they can't really pull on very well.
nfgrls
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the emergency room is not meant to be used as a regular doctor. They are there to help you in time of need get you stable and get you to where you need to go. I work in a ER in registration and you see the same people comming in all the time for the same problem, you ask them did you go see the doctor you were refered to..ugh no.. well there's your problem.
nfgrls
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that sucks for him, I feel his pain like 4 years ago when I was just outa high school and no insurance I started getting bad tooth aches (my teeth were impacted and was in need of all 4 wisdom teeth being pulled) I had had a rootcanal in onetooth right by one of the wisdom tooth and it growing in knowed the filling out and moved it so when I would talk my tongue would hit a jagged piece of the tooth. Hurt so much I had to eventually break that part so I could just talk and not be in pain. Thankfully I got a job with insurance so got it all cleared up.
Anti-biotics are very cheap !!!
If they gave the young guy anti-biotics he would be alive.
Again what is the point of "emergency services" Let fires burn down houses, no need for fire fighters.
Tooth infection or any infection is obviously an emergency and should treated as such.
Spiff
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I remember hearing about this same thing happening to some woman's son a few years ago. She had no dental insurance, so her son never went to the dentist when he had a chronic toothache. The infection spread to his brain, same sad ending.
That's what it's getting to. People without insurance wait until it's beyond a small problem and end-up in the ER.
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As for this man, as unfortunate as it is, he's the only one to blame. There are options. There's calling around and negotiating with doctors, teaching hospitals, free clinics, etc. Hell, one may even find a doctor that would do it for free.
I was in a position years ago without health insurance and required surgery/draining of abscesses in my throat. The ENT doc didn't charge me a dime for the procedure. I brought him a really nice bottle of wine.
BINOWGAYLATER
Do that 2 me 1 more time
that's sad.. you wonder if anybody told him - dentist - ER people, anybody-- if anybody told him -- you could DIE from this kind of infection? --
nfgrls
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yup just as you said "Anti-biotics are very cheap !!!"
I'm sure he was given a small amount and if he could not afford the perscription he should of said so. They did their job. Not their fault his dumb ass waited and waited to go. ANd the fact that he took the PAIN pills over the anti-biotics says something to.
fetaby
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We're not getting the whole story here. From the article, the man saw a dentist first and then went to an ER two weeks later. If the tooth was infected, the dentist should have been the one prescribing the antibiotic. Even if, as the article says, the man was going to forego the extraction. Giving out antibiotics for an abscessed tooth is standard. More's the point, a person does not get to the point of needing antibiotics for an abscessed tooth without years of improper dental hygiene. If there is a lesson to take away from this article, it's that everyone needs to floss regularly.
Beachguyj
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Try to find a teaching dental hospital. They have dental students that are supervised by their teachers and perform procedures at teaching hospitals. One time I went to one at UMDNJ, which is the University Hospital in Newark NJ.
Coincidentally one of my back bottom molars on my left side has been acting up this week, hopefully it will get better on it's own. Sometimes my teeth get tender and then feel better after a few days, I think it was from the Twizzlers that I bought that were not very fresh.
Willie Boy
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The title of this thread is incorrect. It was not the toothache that killed him, he was actually taking meds for that. It was the infection. Why couldn't he just nibble on some moldy bread, free penicillin there.
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They were pain meds, not antibiotics. He could not afford those, so he had to settle for the cheaper pain meds which did nothing to fight the infection.
Willie Boy
BOO!!! Mwahahahaha!!!!!
No, he couldn't afford both. He therefore CHOSE the pain meds OVER the antibiotics. The toothache did not kill him, his fucked up thinking, coupled with the fucked up medical care system of this country, is what led to his death at the "hands" of the infection.
He holds as much responsibility as the system for his death. Maybe he chose to be unemployed, maybe not. But there are agencies out there whose sole purpose of existence is to provide help with medical necessities such as this. Apparently he chose to ignore the problem and hope his wisdom tooth would extract itself....... When that proved not to be the case, and it got infected...... He hoped that taking pain meds to alleviate the immediate pain would solve the problem. It didn't. He continued to look for immediate gratification instead of finding a solution to the problem.
The blog post doesn't really say why he was unemployed, just that he was. He may have been unemployed because he refused to work for all we know. But based on his choices I wouldn't rely on him to make many sound decisions.
Who would choose pain meds over antibiotics to treat the infection resulting in the pain in the first place. Kill the infection kill the pain.
The patience was not in that industry so he don't know much.
The so called "expert" shouldn't ask him for choices in the first place.
Just give him the dam anti-biotics.
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@ Willie Boy
I’d say that the article is a little unclear on exactly why he went with painkillers over antibiotics. The article starts out by saying he could not afford medication, but then it says he could only afford painkillers or antibiotics (both prescribed by the emergency room).
Key words, IMO: emergency room. They want you in and out as fast as possible, and they write scripts for painkillers like it’s going out of style. He was unemployed, in pain, desperate for relief.
Most effective antibiotics cost more money than pain killers. So, did he really have a “choice?”
I also disagree with your statement about his, “fucked up thinking.” The man was 24 years old, and it does not appear that he had a medical degree. He just wanted help.
Think of this logically:
If someone sat him down and explained that the painkillers would make him feel better in the short-term, but the antibiotics would cure him in the long-term and perhaps save his life, which do you think he’d have bought if he could only afford one?
Sadly, knowing how most US Emergency Rooms operate, I strongly doubt anybody provided him with that critical information – so he went with the best he could afford, which was the pain killers.
I’d say that the article is a little unclear on exactly why he went with painkillers over antibiotics. The article starts out by saying he could not afford medication, but then it says he could only afford painkillers or antibiotics (both prescribed by the emergency room).
Key words, IMO: emergency room. They want you in and out as fast as possible, and they write scripts for painkillers like it’s going out of style. He was unemployed, in pain, desperate for relief.
Most effective antibiotics cost more money than pain killers. So, did he really have a “choice?”
I also disagree with your statement about his, “fucked up thinking.” The man was 24 years old, and it does not appear that he had a medical degree. He just wanted help.
Think of this logically:
If someone sat him down and explained that the painkillers would make him feel better in the short-term, but the antibiotics would cure him in the long-term and perhaps save his life, which do you think he’d have bought if he could only afford one?
Sadly, knowing how most US Emergency Rooms operate, I strongly doubt anybody provided him with that critical information – so he went with the best he could afford, which was the pain killers.