Just this morning I had a patient tell me a hilarious one-liner.
We were dispatched to the interstate where a vehicle was reported driving the wrong way on the interstate. We live in rural Montana, so there aren't a lot of people out and about at 0400. PD picks the guy up and brings him to us at the station. The intoxicated male told the officer that he *might* have low blood sugar- hence why we were dispatched at all.
My partner was doing everything possible to get this guy out of a DUI (she's nice like that). We did a 3-lead, checked a sugar (which was fine), checked pupils, did a stroke screening, everything possible! Finally, I had just concluded that he simply is drunk. My partner began to agree. The guy swore he had low blood sugar still.
So before we released him to PD, I asked the guy "So, what did we learn this morning?" (I was expecting a "don't drink and drive" sort of response)
And the guy says to me: "Well. I learned that next time if I am going to try and get out of this that I need to come up with something that you guys can't test."
We were dispatched to the interstate where a vehicle was reported driving the wrong way on the interstate. We live in rural Montana, so there aren't a lot of people out and about at 0400. PD picks the guy up and brings him to us at the station. The intoxicated male told the officer that he *might* have low blood sugar- hence why we were dispatched at all.
My partner was doing everything possible to get this guy out of a DUI (she's nice like that). We did a 3-lead, checked a sugar (which was fine), checked pupils, did a stroke screening, everything possible! Finally, I had just concluded that he simply is drunk. My partner began to agree. The guy swore he had low blood sugar still.
So before we released him to PD, I asked the guy "So, what did we learn this morning?" (I was expecting a "don't drink and drive" sort of response)
And the guy says to me: "Well. I learned that next time if I am going to try and get out of this that I need to come up with something that you guys can't test."