There's a huge difference between having a medical resident or intern in the room and having a private citizen with no relationship to the patient and no medical reason for being there in the room.
It's the job of the intern to go around. All my non-sports medicine medical care in the last 8 years has been at a university hospital, so I'm used to having interns and residents having things explained to them, or taking notes, or generally being helpful medical people in the background.
That's not the same as "Hi! I'm the doctor's random friend! I'm not a doctor anymore!" in the room.
Because addicts dissemble? Isn't that really common? I don't have any relatives who are specifically (or only) addicted to morphine, but there are a million reasons they'll give before "it really feels good" and "it hurts when I stop". Really good reasons.
Still rings clunky in the context. Yeah, addicts dissemble. But you'd expect, then, that you'd have Holmes call him on it, based on what they've written him like thus far.
Holmes is to tell him he should have been stealing a more efficient drug?
My point about addiction is that the guy didn't pick the most medically sensible thing to treat insomnia, and go with that. He's a morphine addict, and he's using it to get himself to sleep.
And he's justifying his addiction with all sorts of medical necessity blah blah, but the fact is--that's what he's addicted to for sleeping by now. And if he'd wanted the Ambien feel, he'd have gotten addicted to that instead.
Holmes is to tell him he should have been stealing a more efficient drug?
Aw, Holmes would totally have told him that.
Yeah, Holmes, as Zenkitty says, would have called him on that. Or said that if he was telling the truth about his reasons, he'd have gone for Ambien instead. It was sloppy writing.
And he's justifying his addiction with all sorts of medical necessity blah blah, but the fact is--that's what he's addicted to for sleeping by now. And if he'd wanted the Ambien feel, he'd have gotten addicted to that instead.
But morphine's just not a good sedative drug for chronic use, for a number of reasons, including but not limited to the reduction of the sedation effect with chronic use. I could see Joe Random Guy deciding it's a good idea, but not Doctor Joe.
That was a fun episode of Castle. I laughed a lot.
With that pumpkin head? Dude.
"Were you wearing protection?"
But morphine's just not a good sedative drug for chronic use
But sedation's not the point with addicts, is it? Excuses are the point. Whether or not Holmes would call him on it is one thing, but an addict lying about why they're taking their drug--isn't that Every Day Every Where?
But sedation's not the point with addicts, is it? Excuses are the point. Whether or not Holmes would call him on it is one thing, but an addict lying about why they're taking their drug--isn't that Every Day Every Where?
It's just a really unbelievable writing choice for an addiction for a medical resident. It fit their plot, but not their character, and caused acute suspension of disbelief issues. (Statistically, I believe actually they're only more prone to abuse alcohol if anything, but I'd have to check the papers on it again.)
