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And I’ve Completely Committed to the Role

ER doctor to bloody man with legs strapped to gurney: So, what’s going on here?
Patient: I’m a drunk.

–Bellevue Emergency Treatment Room

Overheard by: judith currin

  • Posted on July 28, 2008
  • Default, Doctors, Drinking & Drunk People, Drunks, Hospitals, Medicine, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Questions
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