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WCDT 2976-2980 (8 - 12 June 2015)
Akima:
--- Quote from: rfrank dodelijk on 08 Jun 2015, 06:40 ---I think today's strip clearly shows that faye's drinking is not a problem and that her trip to the hospital was entirely due to her housemate's huge over reaction.
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Regardless of the need or otherwise to take Faye to the ER (and it was a sensible precaution IMHO), the fact that she could not get through a working day without drinking, and thus got herself fired from her job, is evidence enough that she has a drinking problem.
--- Quote from: Radium_Coyote on 08 Jun 2015, 07:26 ---Speaking for myself: I've been in enough hospitals to understand that the hospitals are in it for the money.
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I don't know where you live, but in Australia, this is not true of public hospitals, which are generally the only ones that offer ER facilities. I work at a large public teaching hospital (in IT not medical services), and in my observation, the main non-medical preoccupation is shortage of beds. Patients presenting at the ER with serious conditions often spend hours lying on gurneys while the hospital administration scratches around to find beds for them. The hospital absolutely sends home anyone from ER that it thinks it can get away with.
Is it cold in here?:
Radium_Coyote is from Nevada, according to the profile, and the trend in the US has been toward for-profit hospitals.
chaospersonified:
Australia has universal healthcare, according to Wikipedia, and all the evil, deadly things according to the internet.
I am in no way surprised to hear their hospitals are overflowing
MrNumbers:
So, when Faye punched Marten in the hospital, did that hit a switch in Marten's brain? Was his overflow of confidence simply stuck, and that punch was like the Fonz smacking a jukebox?
[Note: MrNumbers does not and never will endorse "Punch To The Head" as an effective alternative to psychiatry. Unless it's, like, really good fruit punch.]
greywolfe:
It might have been cheap whiskey (is it whiskey? the bottle shop montage implied it was clear...), but she didn't even finish half the bottle and has a headache. I think Faye is losing her ability to handle booze as 'easily' as she once did. Not such a bad result considering.
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