Alcohol
Ξ May 26th, 2008 | → | ∇ Uncategorized |
Blatant plagiarism warning: I did not write the following piece and to protect the writer, I have chosen not to post links. Thankfully I did not share the author’s extreme experiences in dealing with alcoholics, but i’ve come to regard alcohol as the ’stupid drink that taste bad and makes you feel worse.’ Seriously, guys, got spare cash, please donate boardgames to your neighbouring school.
I saw the effects of excessive alcohol on 3 patients last night.
The first was an Indian lady too intoxicated to give any history except that she was involved in an accident. From another hospital staff, I learnt that she was a chronic alcoholic and regularly falls into drains and all that. She stays with an ‘uncle’ who isn’t a relative and both insisted me letting them go home. I would love to send both of them home, but unfortunately, she’s too drunk to sign her own discharge, and her ‘uncle’ doesn’t have the legal right to sign it on her behalf.
The second was an Indian man who was intoxicated enough to come in and demand to be admitted(!) because of bodyache. When I refused (as he was stable and able) he became aggressive and started shouting and cursing me. Then, he suddenly stood up and threatened me with his fists. Thankfully, a large-sized hospital attendant was around and managed to ‘calm him down’ and got him out of the emergency department after an analgesic injection.
The third was an Indian man was drank so much that his liver had already failed and came in probably in the early stage of hepatic encephalopathy or Wernicke’s. He started giving a story about how his legs were swollen, but his wife gave a story that he had shortness of breath and chest pain. He denied having S.O.B or chest pain, and started telling me to let him go back with ‘extra medicine’.
Alcohol is bad. Everybody suffers, including your friendly neighbourhood casualty doctor. So, for the sake of yourself and everybody around you, stop!
If you want to kill yourself, go jump in front of a train. But make sure you’re not drunk when you do that, coz if you do, you may try to walk home with a bleeding stump that used to be your leg. (This actually happened to an Indian man who was so drunk, he fell asleep on the railway track and after arriving in the hospital with his leg amputated, tried to leave.)
I hate alcoholics. For personal, professional and religious reasons. I think they should all just *die*. To all alcoholics: If you don’t think I should wish death upon you, then stop being one.
on May 30th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Good try before your wedding. The better bet is to keep alcohol off limit. If not, once we see it, you still have to yum seng with us no matter how you hate alcohol or alcoholics.. haha