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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know why this is national news. But I suspect the guy who first called 911. Would YOU call 911 when a colleague didn't show up for work? How bizarre to assume they needed a welfare check.[/quote]

For the reasons set forth in multiple posts above yours; professionals don’t just no show their clients on a regular basis, the coworkers who know the dentist’s routine and habits had reasons to be alarmed by his absence and most law abiding people believe that in such circumstances the proper course of action is to call police because as a number of posters here have illuminated, most lay people think the police have the power to enter a home when nobody’s answering the door.

Frankly this story and others like it illustrate why we should all have an emergency contact plan for ourselves, especially those of us who live alone or with very young and vulnerable children.

Anybody can fall and hit their head in the shower or suffer a cardiac or cerebrovascular event that leaves us incapable of helping ourselves even so far as to contact 911 via cellphone or Alexa assistance.

We should have a plan in place wherein we leave a house key with a trusted colleague and extend prior permission for them to enter our home should we be a no show, no call, no answer to calls from the workplace. [/quote]

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