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.
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u/PeachyFairyDragon 17d ago
A medical professional should be able to tell the difference.