Tiger Woods cut out of his roll-over with the ‘jaws of life’ this morning!

[Clayster]

They do and did in this case. When on earth has blood test been considered privileged info. You're just making up phrases now. You really are a dumb motherfooker.

For sure, the hospital did a toxicology report before they even considered treating him. No way would they give him meds, or anesthesia, prior to surgery, unless they knew what was already in his system.

Cops are giving him a pass by not issuing subpoenas for that lab work.

 

[Driftcoast]

It is odd. World-class athlete flooring the accelerator w/o touching the brake Wouldn't the hospital check his blood to see if he is intoxicated or high before surgery? Or is that patient's privileged info?

Asleep at the wheel if not on pills

 

[kidfury]

For sure, the hospital did a toxicology report before they even considered treating him. No way would they give him meds, or anesthesia, prior to surgery, unless they knew what was already in his system.

This is incorrect information

 

[Clayster]

This is incorrect information

Like hell it is.

 

[kidfury]

Like hell it is.

You don't know what you're trying to talk about.

 

[_____]

I've never been given a toxicology test prior to meds, anesthesia, surgery etc, including at the ER. Can anyone here verify they have?

 

[VonMeister]

I know they blood type prior to surgery. I would think wanting to know if a patient is under the influence of something that could monkey with anesthesia could be important...like fentanyl and other opiates which are already respiratory depressants. I think if you go in for scheduled surgery it's probably different and them asking the patient is enough.

For car accidents screening for drugs and alcohol is standard as part of the law enforcement investigation.

 

[Autoprax]

I alway lie when they ask.

No, that's a lie.

I have lied before.

 

[_____]

Some friends made me go into the ER the day after an injury while we were having a couple of beers and I showed them my swollen ballsack. The nurse who was ultrasounding my nuts could smell it on my breath. She asked me in an accent, "had a bit of the drink tonight, aye?". I couldn't really lie. They still gave me morphine when I arrived and another blast of it before I left.

 

[billypilgrim]

I knew a guy who was skating a contest, ate it and snapped one of the bones in his arm. He was coked up and on some other sh!t. They held him in the hospital and wouldn't put the rods/pins in his arm until he came down off whatever he was on.

 

[kidfury]

You can't detain (hold) someone in a hospital without placing them on a legal psychiatric hold (5150).

I would venture to guess that a doctor would be more exposed to legal liability from not treating someone who was intoxicated than from treating them.
Drunk/stoned/high people are anesthetized and medically/surgically treated all the time. You gotta get them in the CT scanner, you gotta sedate then.
You don't wait around for toxicology results.

 

[GromsDad]

As someone who may or may not have beaten the absolute **** out of more than one rental car on unfamiliar California highways I can see how a stone cold sober Tiger Woods may have been going too fast for what was ahead in that rental.

 

[_____]

You gotta get them in the CT scanner, you gotta sedate then.

No, you don't.

 

[ElOgro]

You can't detain (hold) someone in a hospital without placing them on a legal psychiatric hold (5150).

I would venture to guess that a doctor would be more exposed to legal liability from not treating someone who was intoxicated than from treating them.
Drunk/stoned/high people are anesthetized and medically/surgically treated all the time. You gotta get them in the CT scanner, you gotta sedate then.
You don't wait around for toxicology results.

Are you a certified MD?

 

[potato-nator]

wonder why nobody is accusing him of being a road fool.
cause he is.

 

[kidfury]

No, you don't.

Sometimes you do.

 

[SurfFuerteventura]

Nut to do wit Tiger.

Knew a lady whose kid was a pill popper. Mostly Molly.

Showed up to knee reconstruction surgery hopped up. They tried to put him under, he ripped the mask off within three inhalations and went about destroying the surgical theater in a sudden violent rage. It took 4 security guards to stop him and get him cuffed and zip locked at the ankles, before carrying him away to the looney bin.

Apparently, they didn't check what he was on first.

 

[kidfury]

Pre-operative, pre-surgical drug screening is not a thing. Drug screens aren't accomplished in minutes. They take a few hours. Elective surgeries are usually scheduled for the morning. Patients are instructed to have had nothing to eat or drink for 12 hours or so before the surgery. Nurses and an anesthetists would have carefully assessed your friend's son before they started to put him down. Some people have unpredictable reactions to anesthesia regardless of whether they use molly or other drugs. Fucked up people are assessed and anesthetized all the time, for example following a severe auto accident or shooting. You can't wait around for hours to see what their tox screen shows.

 

[SurfFuerteventura]

Pre-operative, pre-surgical drug screening is not a thing. Drug screens aren't accomplished in minutes. They take a few hours. Elective surgeries are usually scheduled for the morning. Patients are instructed to have had nothing to eat or drink for 12 hours or so before the surgery. Nurses and an anesthetists would have carefully assessed your friend's son before they started to put him down. Some people have unpredictable reactions to anesthesia regardless of whether they use molly or other drugs. Fucked up people are assessed and anesthetized all the time, for example following a severe auto accident or shooting. You can't wait around for hours to see what their tox screen shows.

or days, if the lab isn't local!

my REGULAR blood work takes 11 days, and that's just a normal annual screening.

i'd imagine stuff like tox screens being a bit more complicated, but i know nothing about it actually.

 

[potato-nator]

i wonder if this rich/famous/successful man REALLY cries out for
attention by wrecking cars?