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(, Thu 16 May 2013, 11:33)
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Massive drugs and alcohol don't mix
Top Tip!

If you decide to indulge in a night of consuming massive drugs and enough booze to run a pub for a week, don't be surprised if upon your arrival to A&E for feeling "not very well" is met with general displeasure from us happy nursing staff.
Oh, and if you continue said grumbles at us happy nursing staff for not wiping your shitty arse because your bodily functions are currently out of order due to massive drugs and booze, then please, feel free to sign the self discharge form and fuck off home, so we can deal with the really poorly 80 year old lady in the next bed who is scared to fuck with your intoxicated ramblings and incessant swearing.
And no, we will NOT give you any pain killers to take away the headache or stomach cramps you have due to said ingestion of massive drugs and booze, as more drugs will probably kill you.

Oh, and I wholly concur with Amorous Badgers previous comments - namely "Don't be a cunt".
(, Sat 18 May 2013, 8:35, 7 replies)
Perhaps we should charge for every A&E admission
and refund everyone who has not eaten a giant paracetamol etc.
(, Sat 18 May 2013, 9:23, closed)
You want the druggies to fuck off....
so you can get your leg over with the 80 year old granny?

You sicken me.
(, Sat 18 May 2013, 11:59, closed)
As an NHS worker of 8 years I never understand this attitude
"If you need the NHS but the reason you need us is something I don't approve of, you don't deserve the service".

Seriously, the NHS is there to serve the public not the other way around. Everyone has the right to live their life in whatever way they want (as long as they don't directly harm anyone else). Are you seriously suggesting people go around thinking "well, I'm not going to go rock climbing today because I might fall and have to bother the doctors and nurses in A&E"?
(, Sat 18 May 2013, 16:52, closed)
Job satisfaction, innit?
Someone repeatedly wrecking their health after being patched up is probably about as soul destroying as building the same wall every day, with someone else going along behind you knocking it down.
(, Sat 18 May 2013, 17:09, closed)

Right-o. So, if Mr "I'm a Cunt", having come into A&E starts giving it large because the only treatment we can give isn't acting as fast as he wants, then that's ok?
Hey up - if I was to go and get a bit merry on the old fizzy pop and fell over and needed a visit to the local hospital, I wouldn't be demanding, obnoxious and generally acting like a cunt.

Besides, using rock climbing as an example is not really a good example - that's more like a occupational hazard. Anyway, if someone if rock climbing / mountain biking / extreme kitten huffing, then the chances are they are living a reasonably healthy lifestyle.
Lets try cancer and smoking for example. Seeing as you work for the NHS, what is your trust's policy on cancer treatment for smokers?
Or organ transplant for chronic alcoholics with no intention of stopping?
Maybe extreme examples, but do you see my point?
(, Sat 18 May 2013, 17:31, closed)
Well whatever the rights and wrongs
I'd be pretty pissed off having to do your job at times.
(, Sat 18 May 2013, 18:39, closed)
The smokers and the alcoholics have paid plenty extra in tax to fund the NHS
The mountain bikers and climbers? Not so much.
(, Mon 20 May 2013, 7:19, closed)

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