another one of my patient's died today. i swear its not me, they are just really sick!

one that isnt really sick is my 60yo pt who checked himself into the hospital for alcohol withdrawal symptoms. this can get pretty serious if your body is used to alcohol at all time, you can have a seizure and thats not good. Originally, i thought 'wow, good for this guy. he wants to clean up his act.' FALSE. after talking with him, i found out the guy had a stomach flu and was vomiting for 3 days and he couldn't drink because of it. so he started having tremors and felt like crap so he checked himself into the hospital to get IV fluids. we call it a banana bag because it really does look yellow. its normal saline with supplements that most alcoholics dont have beacuse of their poor nutrition. rumor has it that they cost around $1,000 because of all the calculations to mix one up [complete bullshit i think to cost that much...]. so we were forced to check him into the hospital because of his withdrawal symptoms. your tax money hard at work [medicare patient].