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Boozy Texas dentist accused of operating on kid while drunk β€” flunks sobriety test
New York Post ^ | Feb. 19, 2026 | Anna Young

Posted on 02/19/2026 3:28:27 PM PST by nickcarraway

A Texas dentist was busted for allegedly performing surgery on a child while drunk – and flunked a sobriety test when staff flagged her suspicious behavior to police, cops said.

Kelly Buck, 36, was arrested Monday afternoon at Pediatric Dentistry of Sherman, about 65 miles north of Dallas, after a staffer noticed she appeared intoxicated while treating a patient and alerted the authorities, according to the Sherman Police Department and the dental practice.

Officers responded around noon and took the allegedly tipsy tooth doc into custody after she showed signs of being boozed up and failed a field sobriety test, police said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: annayoung; dei; dentistry; kellybuck; newyorkpost; sherman; texas

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If she wanted to work drunk, she should have become a pilot.
1 posted on 02/19/2026 3:28:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Was that wrong? Should she not have done that?


2 posted on 02/19/2026 3:29:39 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Law and Order -- only one of our political parties believes in it.)
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To: All

“My dad always said- “The day I can’t do my job drunk is the day I turn in my badge and gun”
(from the Drew Carey Show)


3 posted on 02/19/2026 3:29:48 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: nickcarraway

Not guilty


4 posted on 02/19/2026 3:32:45 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway
The most important person in any hospital is the Charge Nurse. She runs the emergency department, determines who gets admitted, who doesn't.

She knows which physicians go the extra mile for their patients and know which physicians drink when they're on call.

5 posted on 02/19/2026 3:33:07 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: nickcarraway

There is a huge problem with Dentists that are addicted, usually to pain pills or laughing gas. I know someone who ran a few clinics and you saw it more than you could believe.


6 posted on 02/19/2026 3:33:19 PM PST by Eli Kopter (Wherever you are, that is where you are supposed to be...)
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To: nickcarraway

Decades ago in South Carolina there was a dentist who got hooked on laughing gas. It was sad whenever he was in the newspaper regarding his addiction.


7 posted on 02/19/2026 3:35:34 PM PST by johnnygeneric (RIP NYC)
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To: nickcarraway

LOL! Always have loved Foster Brooks! :)

Old Dean Martin skit with Foster as the drunk pilot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F662rWlkzrI


8 posted on 02/19/2026 3:37:33 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Isn’t a gal entitled to a few martunis at lunch after a morning of swish and spit?


9 posted on 02/19/2026 3:38:41 PM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: BenLurkin

Her mug shot?


10 posted on 02/19/2026 3:39:01 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: BenLurkin

Her mugshot says guilty, but her linkedin pic says Not Guilty.


11 posted on 02/19/2026 3:40:53 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (I wasn't expecting a kind of Spanish Inquisition.)
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To: fishtank

Well now, she was having a bad day obviously.


12 posted on 02/19/2026 3:41:37 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

There isn’t enough booze in the world to get me to be a children’s dentist.


13 posted on 02/19/2026 3:43:20 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: nickcarraway

It is a bummer that they don’t tell us what her BAC was.


14 posted on 02/19/2026 3:52:03 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
The practice may have difficulty filling the vacancy.

15 posted on 02/19/2026 3:54:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: nickcarraway

Not guilty... I saw her pic.


16 posted on 02/19/2026 4:01:33 PM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: nickcarraway

The dentist I went to as a kid was always drunk....


17 posted on 02/19/2026 4:21:09 PM PST by hecticskeptic
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>>>filling the vacancy

Hiring was capped.

18 posted on 02/19/2026 4:24:24 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: nickcarraway

The Pilot with Cliff Robertson is a great movie


19 posted on 02/19/2026 4:49:03 PM PST by al baby (I miss that ol windbag )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ€£

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB7R0ZxNgC4


20 posted on 02/19/2026 4:51:35 PM PST by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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