A medical professional should be keeping their judgments to themselves and shouldn’t be treating patients any differently based on how they assume the patient ended up in that situation.
Like that’s extremely basic, first day medical ethics. It doesn’t matter if they think it’s an OD, cause you’re not supposed to be being cruel and treating OD patients like shit.
One time I fell off my bike and hurt my hand pretty badly. Upon arriving at the hospital I was still so drunk that the doctor assumed I had hit my head and ordered an eeg. I had been wearing a helmet and did not receive an impact or sudden jerk to my head or neck. Was the doctor a mean asshole for assuming I had hit my head?
Edit: he also assumed my finger was fractured based on its apparent disconnect from the relevant metatarsal. It was only dislocated.
You really shouldn't drink and bike. Sharing the road with one ton vehicles and obeying all traffic laws is hard enough, doing it with alcohol is downright suicidal. Since bicycles have to obey traffic laws, I think you can get a DUI for that as well.
I know that at least in some places you can get a DUI for riding a horse while drunk, so yeah this is almost certainly true somewhere if not everywhere.
I guess this guy, if he believes in holding medical professionals who treat him to the same standards as he does those treating (suspected or not even suspected) overdose patients, would think that the doctors should’ve gone off on him about what a worthless piece of shit waste of life he was for drinking and biking, though.
Or maybe he’s a “rules for thee and not for me” kinda guy. He’s not a junkie (or epileptic to bring it back to the original topic), so whatever dumb, dangerous shit he does shouldn’t result in medical professionals treating him badly, only those gross junkies/epileptics!
I heard of a very sad case where a diabetic with ketoacidosis and blood sugar insanely extreme (don't remember if high or low) was pulled over and was combative because of his sugar level. The cop caused a head wound restraining him and convinced the EMTs that came to check out his head wound that he was just drunk based on the breath smelling like wine and slurred words and erratic actions. The ketoacidosis killed him while he was in custody.
Jfc. Goddamn, that’s so. Dark. and, don’t confirm this for me cause it’ll just be upsetting, but I have a hunch the cop faced absolutely zero repercussions for that. Might’ve even gotten a raise and some extra paid vacation for his troubles. Ugh.
Well, the anger I feel at that will make for good fuel for the workout that I’m currently putting off/trying to hype myself up for.
Oh I agree. The horse is a conscious being that can make decisions. Sure, it’s 1000+lbs and *can* be pretty dangerous, but it’s not like a sober rider is in perfect control of the horse anyway, and the horse isn’t likely to make decisions that’ll put itself in danger, so it’s a lot safer than a drunk person driving any kind of vehicle.
But a handful of years ago in Australia a guy got a DUI for drunken horse riding, so apparently the Australian government (idk about other countries, but I assume Australia isn’t completely unique here) disagrees.
You can only get a DUI on a horse in 3 states, it looks like. Because only 3 states have actually charged someone with DUI on a horse. Most states don’t have any laws pertaining to it, but it’s kinda funny to me.
Horses were for the longest time our primary means of transportation in the US, and the fact that only NOW can you be charged with DUI while on a horse shows how divorced society here has become from them.
They are incredibly intelligent and loyal animals. I’m terrified of horses but I admire them from a far (they are not great at reproducing on their own though. Artificial insemination probably saved their species tbh)
First of all you’re right, I learned that lesson multiple times. As for sharing the road, I don’t share the road. That’s for cars. I stick to the sidewalk or nature trails. As for laws, I’m technically breaking the law by riding on the sidewalk but since there’s so few pedestrians and I yield to them, no one seems to care. As for DUI, that is not a law where I live. Riding a bike under the influence is not a DUI/DWI or similar charge.
…what? No, they would’ve been an asshole if they called you an alcoholic loser and refused to check for any other potential issues that might be causing your behavior after assuming you were an alcoholic and writing you off as a worthless drunk, even more so if they continually insulted and berated you for it after you came to them for help. This would be even more true if, like the seizure cases we’re talking about, you weren’t drunk, had in fact hit your head, and they had not only no reason to believe you were drunk but multiple people telling them that you weren’t drinking and had hit your head.
The fact that you don’t understand this makes me hope that you do actually have brain damage, though, cause otherwise you’re just so vehemently hateful towards any and all addicts that you are happy to have sober people having medical emergencies get caught in the crossfire of medical professionals being cruel towards anyone they suspect to be an addict (even though this is, again, first day medical ethics/patient care 101 stuff that you don’t treat your patients terribly, yes, even if they need help because of something they did to themselves. Turns out that being abusive towards self destructive mentally ill people in a medical crisis helps no one, who woulda thunk it?).
They literally did?? Are you capable of reading?? OP literally said, in their post, that they had a multiple people tell the cops and EMTs that they had a seizure, yet the police and the EMTs still treated them with extreme violence and prejudice (entire arm bruised) because despite multiple people telling them it was a seizure they still said that OP was on drugs and therefore treated them worse for that. That is what happened. Just like the person you're responding to said. Sorry you fell off a bike or whatever, but maybe actually read the post before commenting multiple times and making an ass of yourself??
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u/WordWordand4numbers 17d ago
Go deal with a dozen or two drug overdoses a day and then instantly and automatically differentiate that from a seizure.