A day after that patient chased me out of the ward, the next night, a patient in the DTs smacked a nurse right in her face. The poor lady was shorter than me and thin. She fell and hit the wall. Her right cheek was swollen and red.
I do not understand why do we need to admit people who drink too much alcohol. Once they get admitted, all we do is provide them with a few days worth of banana bags to replenish their vitamin deficiency. During their admission, they obviously go into alcohol withdrawal, whereby, they become violent, and agitated. We have to give them tablets/injections to calm them down. They normally get discharged within a week. And guess what? They go back to the pub and continue to drink their hearts out! A few weeks to months later, they get admitted again with too much alcohol. It is a vicious cycle indeed!
They do not appreciate what we are doing, so why are we even treating them? Instead, we get verbally and physically abused. And all the money spent on buying those tablets/injections to calm them down. They are bloody wasting our money, time and energy! I really can't stand them....but lucky me, patients with too much alcohol are so abundant here. sigh.
6 comments:
oh no... another one?
hehe....yes, another one. violence is everywhere!
hi, was blog-hopping and found yours :)
the scary patient you mentioned in your earlier post sounded extremely familiar... just wondering, was the patient's initials GW (W = a very famous surname esp in Stirling lol)
SL
hello
yes it was. hehe...
do i know you? =)
haha...so it was him!
he was quite nice during the day though, getting about helping other patients, the staff (and students haha).
it's su ling here. don't know if you remember me :)
oh hello sl! yes, i remember you, friend of peters and geak poh's. =)
its weird that we share the same initials...and my family calls me su ling sometimes. =)
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