A BAC of .216, for a person who weighs 140 pounds, is about five martini’s consumed over a two hour period.
Good advice. Ya’ learned a cheap lesson, honey.
If she was humiliated she did it to herself. What an idiot !!!!!
GDFD is offended over helpful advice, hmmmmmmmmm.
But according to Howe’s complaint, she was not seen by a doctor until 7:50 a.m., more than five hours after she arrived. She was eventually examined by Sooch, but Howe says the doctor did not order X-rays, an MRI or a CT scan of her head, nor was she admitted to the hospital. Sooch treated the cut on her head and in his discharge instructions, prescribed Tylenol, facts verified by medical records. Dr. Sooch, on the hospital discharge sheet, had these instructions for Howe:
“Do not abuse alcohol. Do not get drunk and fall causing harm to your head or body. Apologize to your family, friends and ED (emergency department) faculty for your extremely inappropriate behavior and rudeness while intoxicated. Be a great mother to your kids.”
Under standards of medical practice long established in this country it is *never* inappropriate for a physician to advise a patient who has fallen out of a moving vehicle and was subsequently found to have a blood alcohol level about 3 times the level of legal intoxication to refrain from drinking to excess so that he/she might avoid a repeat of a potentially fatal scenario.
This is the natural result of a society that has progressively shifted from a paradigm of personal responsibility to a paradigm of victimology.