In article >,
Goomba > wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
> > In article >,
> > Damsel in dis Dress > wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:20:08 -0600, Omelet >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Suicide is not legal.
> >> I'd love to see the cops show up at a mortuary to arrest a successful
> >> suicide. I attempted once and wasn't arrested. I know lots of people
> >> who have attempted and no legal action was ever taken against them. I
> >> wonder why that law even exists?
> >>
> >> Carol
> >
> > They are not arrested, but if they make it to the ER, they are most
> > often "committed" if they survive.
>
> More accurately they get a psych eval.

I stand corrected... All I know is that they end up at Laurel Ridge.
They run ETOH levels until they are under 100mg/dl. LR won't take them
if they are still drunk.

Many of them are when they come in.

BTW Goomba, you might like this one. We've recently switched over to the
"Meditech" computer system, so the basic admitting diagnosis/complaint
is printed on the patient orders. We saw a very interesting one the
other day "Patient can't feel their body".

They were positive for Opiates.
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