Drunks

Today I had a drunk who was brought in by ambulance for the second time in 14 hours with a complaint of altered level of consciousness, duh....a BAC over .3 will do that to ya', you don't need a doctor to tell you that one. On the second visit he was found walking around with his broken IV tubing trailing along behind him dripping blood all over the ER. When asked why he bit his IV tubing in half he looked at it and said "Did I do that?" Steve Urkel lives.

Seriously though, these people take up a huge amount of medical resources being paid for by your tax dollars. Since they can not appropriately take care of themselves they should be institutionalized which would be much cheaper for the taxpayers. And don't give me any crap about how we would be infringing upon their precious rights to drink themselves into a stupor every day and pass out in puddles of puke, shit and piss in public places so that someone has to call 911 to get them the heck out of there. That takes an ambulance out of service so that when someone's little old mom is having a big ole MI there is no ambulance to take her to the hospital. It takes up a hospital room so that when you are sitting in the waiting room dying from that kidney stone you have to just suck it up. It takes up BILLIONS OF DOLLARS of medical resources every year in my state alone. Sorry, I don't want to hear about their 'rights.' If you have such a bad substance abuse problem then you need to be taken care of for society's good.