'It's Worse with Kids in Summer When They Are Drinking Outside' Drunkenness, Injuries and Violence in the Emergency Ward Background
The Herald › February 28, 2005
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THE nurse bangs on the door of the lavatory, calling out the young man's name. When the door is pushed open he can be seen lying semi-conscious on the floor. He is helped to his feet by the doctor and nurse, but cannot walk unaided, so is led to a bed.
It is 12.45am yesterday, in the accident and emergency department of Monklands Hospital in Airdrie, and the young man wearing the football shirt has just collapsed after drunkenly taking an overdose of paracetamol.See the full content of this document
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'It's Worse with Kids in Summer When They Are Drinking Outside' Drunkenness, Injuries and Violence in the Emergency Ward Background
As they settle him in a bed in one of the bays, the medical staff are more immediately concerned about the drugs he has ingested than his drunkenness.
But, like so many of the cases the doctors and nurses must...See the full content of this document
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