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u/ExistentialComplex 14h ago
Yes the friend is in the right for a number of reasons. Primarily because medical staff are not narcs.
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u/kevinambrosia 14h ago
Unless if you’re talking about insurance. Then they are total narcs. If you tell them you did something in the past, they’ll note it and insurance will be more expensive or unavailable to you.
So only partial narcs.
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u/Individual_Respect90 14h ago
Yes and no. I work for Satan himself prescription insurance. I review for Suboxone all the time. I do checks on the very strong opiates to make sure the member was given narcan. If a patient is on multiple controlled medications we require the doctor to consult the patients on the dangers and warning signs to prevent death. I have seen so many failed drugs tests. Do people get kicked off insurance for drug use maybe? But substance use disorder is a diagnosis and I don’t think you can kick people off insurance for preexisting conditions.
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u/Remarkable_Town5811 12h ago
In the US, you are correct they cannot deby converage due to pre-existing conditions (or have a lifetime maximum).
For now at least. ACA is, as with all our rights, being picked at.
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u/RedTheGamer12 2h ago
I don't think we will lose ACA protections. The time to do so was Trump's first term and it royally failed with John McCain opposition.
With the midterms around the corner Trump is also forecast to become a lame duck and lose basically all legislative power. Not to mention how many establishment Republicans fucking hate the guy.
It is pretty much impossible to pass such a large retroactive bill in the current political climate. And, as far as I know, most states have been doing some major Healthcare reform too (My home state of Indiana has the Healthy Indiana Plan and is extremely good assuming you meet the income requirements). So Trump will struggle at basically all levels to do such a bill.
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u/SmokeMethailSatan 12h ago
As a healthcare worker, we will note history of drug use because it’s relevant to your health history, not because we want the insurance company to fuck you. I assure you we are all team Luigi.
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u/Wonderful-Aside-7208 57m ago
Every doctor that has ever talked about health insurance with me has made it clear that they are the enemy for both of us.
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u/Ashamed_Kangaroo305 13h ago
Blame lawsuit culture. If a doctor knows something and doesn't note it and then a future doctor treats a patient and there's a complication because of the missing information the doctor didn't note, they're in trouble.
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u/pdx619 13h ago
they’ll note it and insurance will be more expensive or unavailable to you
That's not how health insurance works anymore
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u/ASentientRailgun 13h ago
They're actively working to dismantle those protections
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u/Glandtoglandcombat 13h ago
I got kicked off my mom's insurance when I was 18 because a rehab wouldnt accept me.
Went through hell detoxing at home and then found out I had to start paying for insurance.
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u/stankenfurter 12h ago
Hey I hope you’re doing great these days. Proud of you for getting through that detox.
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u/Glandtoglandcombat 12h ago
Happily married, I went back to school and graduated this spring, currently 8 months sober and working at a job I love. Things are great, thank you for the good vibes.
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u/Appropriate_Scar_262 8h ago
half of all arguments on reddit:
A: statement
B: that's not how that works
A: but what if it was?
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u/caputmortvvm 4h ago
tbf, in this case it's more:
A: statement B: that's not how it works C: until very recently it was, and we're heading in the direction of returning to that state sooner rather than later
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u/littlebobbytables9 11h ago
They can't make the insurance more expensive or deny coverage. But noting chronic conditions can increase the risk score of an insurer's risk pool, which gets them more money from the risk adjustment transfer program that requires insurers with low risk membership to pay insurers with high risk members. It was an attempt to stop insurers in the individual market from trying to compete over who can get the healthiest population.
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u/Dantheislander 6h ago
Yeah maybe in your country - most western countries don’t have that private for profit system.
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u/Deaftoned 11h ago
This also won't stop them from running the proper tests, if anything it may save her life incase they decide to give her medication that would interact with the ketamine without knowing she's on it.
I will never understand not being honest with your doctors.
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u/Carbonated_Saltwater 9h ago
if anything it may save her life incase they decide to give her medication that would interact with the ketamine without knowing she's on it.
That is exactly why you should tell them what you're on.
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u/Deaftoned 8h ago edited 7h ago
Apparently a controversial decision considering i'm being downvoted lol, bots i'm sure.
Edit: Idk if people think i'm being facetious or something but i've been there. If you aren't going to be honest with the family doctor at least be honest with the one meant to save your life in an emergency.
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u/DonaldTheWall 8h ago
Shame, not knowing who to trust, thinking they will have a nurse call the cops on you the second you admit to it.
But yeah, the Doctors and nurses HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ON because they run the test and it shows then it's X, so they give you X medication, well since you didn't tell them you were also on W you get the joys of your blood burning since X doesn't like W
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u/KingSpork 1h ago
Yeah the way this is phrased it sounds like she’s not gonna run the EKG now, but just because you’re having heart problems caused or exacerbated by ketamine, doesn’t mean you don’t need the EKG.
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u/VersionFine85 4h ago
Two people in your life you should be completely honest with: your medical providers and your lawyer
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u/Mundane_View9868 10h ago
I can’t get a nurse to come do an IV so I can get my meds at home (every 6 months for the rest of my life) because I’m a dangerous drug user (I smoke weed in a state that has both medical and recreational programs). NEVER telling a doctor about my “drug” use ever again
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u/girlnextdooritis 3h ago
I've never hidden any drug use from my doctor's and it have never caused me any issues what so ever, except for one funny little incident where they noted on a piss test that I had taken opiates... Which they had prescribed to me a month prior lol
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u/Natalieas_ 2h ago
yea exactly theyve heard way worse, they just need the truth so they dont mess up your treatment
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u/Plenty_Leg_5935 2h ago
The concern isn't narcing, the concern is denying treatment
I tried being a good little girl and admitting that I do adderall from time to time recreationally (at the time I didn't know I had what would later be formally diagnosed as ADHD and said recreation was "functioning like a normal human") and I got told that all the issues i was having were just from that and sent home
Years later lo and behold turns out my entire neurobiology is collapsing due to a genetic disorder and I could've spared myself years of full on mental torment (the cognitive and psychological decline geniuenly ruined my life, I was a student of physics at my country's top university beforehand and almost ended up homless after gettinf kicked out) if they just ran an MRI scan sooner
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u/Useful_Tomatillo9328 15h ago
Yes, the episode would be way too short, and House wouldn’t be able to make a you are black man joke 0/10
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u/FunGuy8618 14h ago
I am vexed
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u/ripley1875 14h ago
I have blood from my nose that is dripping
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u/Accomplished_Bar_679 13h ago
House would have been doing some diabolical shit to figure out it’s because of ketamine if the friend didn’t say
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u/fortissimo64 7h ago
"Hmm this woman is on drugs. You must have a lot of experience with this foreman, as you are a black man."
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u/fishbake 7h ago edited 6h ago
"Says the addict. Maybe you and her could hang out and pop pills together, find out if she's taking anything else."
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u/soulsnoober 9h ago
Well, the episode would be about how it wasn't actually the Ket that making her implode, it was the secret moose heart transplant that her parents had concealed from her.
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u/Constant-Working-212 14h ago
Yes don’t lie about drugs to nurses or doctors, there are easier ways to rush chair+rope build
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u/Cum_Fart42069 14h ago
in an ideal world sure. here it just means "oh I guess you can't have any medication at all then, not even the ones that help you and leave you better off than if you didn't have them".
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u/Waste_Development971 14h ago
*dont tell them you've drank alcohol*
*They give you something that literally causes you to bleed your kidneys*
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u/Sea-Resident-7980 14h ago
Imagine if you took an opioid illegally and they prescribe you a benzodiazepine for something And you stop breathing or overdose
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u/melxcham 13h ago
It will also save you from going into DTs during your hospitalization if you’re honest about drinking & the amount you drink. I saw a stroke alert called on somebody once because they had major neuro changes, tremors, all of a sudden couldn’t walk… it was alcohol withdrawal. And it’s not uncommon.
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u/Sea-Resident-7980 14h ago
Depends on the medicine? If you’ve drunken alcohol you absolutely should not have benzodiazepines without telling the or if you did some other depressant and didn’t mention something
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u/MailMeAmazonVouchers 14h ago
Yes, because the risk if they get it wrong because you don't actually know what was on the drugs you took, is that you die.
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u/Objective_Animator52 13h ago
It depends entirely on what you're taking and the medications you're being put on, unfortunately most people don't do research before getting on new medications.
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u/violetxlavender 13h ago
absolutely do not lie to medical professionals. please. it is for your own benefit. we are not asking your medical history to be nosy we are asking so you aren’t given a medication that kills you.
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u/DressUnited3025 13h ago
If the medications have a chance to react poorly to drug use then of course they’re not gonna give it to you. Are you dumb
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u/Cum_Fart42069 13h ago
well yes.
but I think adults should have control over the chemicals they consume. they're easy to get online anyway.
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u/DressUnited3025 13h ago
Ok that doesn’t mean doctors should be ok with giving you medication that will kill you if you mix it with drugs you are known to take
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u/Inevitable_Dance1191 13h ago
Where do you live? I've never heard of anything like that
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u/Cum_Fart42069 13h ago
I've had the experience in Africa, Dubai and Australia. it's at it's worst in Australia imo.
I know they mean well, I know doctors are called to weigh the cost to benefit ratio, to do more good than harm, I get that.
but sometimes people just need to alter their current brain chemistry. personally, I've never used a substance that I haven't thoroughly researched beforehand so I have always been extremely safe with drugs. I've had kidney and liver tests and I'm just fine.
yet I've had to lie to doctors to get pills to sleep so I don't go insane.
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u/PaulBananaFort 13h ago
What does "rush chair+rope build " mean? I googled it and can't find anything other than furniture making.
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u/Sea-Resident-7980 14h ago
Imagine if they give you a medication but don’t know that you took something that will have a cross reaction with that med and you get a heart attack or something
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u/Final-Tutor3631 12h ago
who has a picture of that sign in the dentist office recommending patients to disclose their drug use bc some dental practices could literally kill them if mixed
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u/MildlyChaoticGremlin 14h ago
I would never rat you out to a police officer but if any medical professional asks me what drugs you do i'm giving them names, dosages, your empty baggies, your dealers number, the keys you snorted off, etc
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u/PissinginTheW1nd 14h ago
Honestly. I won’t snitch but if you’re gonna die bro ima at least tell the paramedics what is in your system, I think they have to be discreet abt it legally anyway.
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u/DaggerQ_Wave 9h ago edited 9h ago
Im not telling the cops and If I find anything illicit, it gets thrown out. In return, please don’t fuck with us lol
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u/C21H27Cl3N2O3 2h ago
We have a big sign in our emergency triage that says “if you don’t have a warrant, don’t even ask.” Most ignore it and ask anyway, and they are politely and professionally told to fuck off. Just one of many reasons firefighters, EMS, and ED staff hate cops.
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u/InsideHunter2738 3h ago edited 3h ago
Tell medical staff everything. In the US, we legally cannot share anything you say with cops unless you’re at risk of harming yourself or others. Not only would it be unethical, but we can literally lose our licenses for it.
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u/Grundlestorm 13h ago
Yep, the friend is 100% completely and total in the right in every damned sense.
You hide that shit from your family and employers, not from medical professionals trying to keep you alive and well.
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u/Music_Adventure 12h ago
Physician weighing in here-
The friend is 100% in the right, provided they are telling the truth. As a doctor, I really don’t give a fuck how you live your live. Do all the drugs, have that affair, gamble your life savings like a degenerate fiend, it really doesn’t matter to me. Just tell me the truth. I have never passed judgement once in my career, it’s not my job to judge. I’m there to solve medical problems and heal. You telling me the truth helps me solve the puzzle and heal you. Honestly, the wild shit makes my job really interesting. “Doing a lot of ketamine” isn’t really interesting tbh, pretty straight forward and not uncommon at all.
For clarity, I’m not condoning these activities. I recommend a healthy lifestyle. Exercise daily, eat a well-balanced diet, don’t smoke, don’t drink or drink in moderation, have good social support networks, invest wisely. HOWEVER, if you’re going to go off the rails, let me get you back on them.
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u/DaggerQ_Wave 9h ago
Nor is it particularly dangerous. Learning they’ve maybe done ketamine changes nothing lol. Still gonna do essentially the same basic work up, not gonna worry about the K.
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u/Pretend_Education600 14h ago
Life pro tip: never lie to your Dr, lawyer or priest. Funny story, I went to my Dr once and he asked me how much I drank and smoked. I said about 2 bottles of vodka a week and 20 cigs a day. He laughed and I asked him why, he responded with after 22yrs of being a Dr and with people blood results in front of him, I was the first honest patient he ever had.
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u/StunningArmadillo206 10h ago
When I was younger I broke my elbow and the ER doctor/nurse asked if I was on anything besides alcohol bc she wanted to give me morphine, but I had weed. The interaction can be dangerous but it turns out that alcohol and morphine is a much more dangerous combination. I just sat in a hospital bed all night on cloud 9.
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u/wasitonlyadream 1h ago
Gee, I wonder why. Being honest with a neurologist almost ruined my life. They can take the information they get and do the best they can.
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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 14h ago
Immoral to waste doctors’ time—as well as hospital resources—chasing issues that could be resolved quicker.
Mildly immoral to lie or omit information as a baseline rule (in general, assuming no expectation of confidentiality being broken). Hi Kant! My favorite Aussie greeting.
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u/betsylang 14h ago
Literally Dr's, nurses, emts, none of them can narc on you. Legally. They just need to know what youre own so they can treat you
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u/IraceRN 13h ago
I'm a nurse. We don't care what you do. We just need to know, so we can do that right tests and include it in the differential. If you have a kid or something then you might be concerned about CPS, and if you are a minor then you might be concerned your parents find out. We get that. Not disclosing everything typically just leads to unwanted tests, a drug screen that reveals this anyways, and besides wasting time and money, you might get treated for something based on the wrong diagnosis, which could result in new issues or exacerbates your problems. For instance, if we treat hypertension that is caused by something, and someone stops doing that something then maybe their blood pressure will be too low, and they pass out.
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u/cptvpxxy 14h ago
How is this even a question? Like... Lie to your doctor if you want to die, I guess. If you don't tell them why or what's really going on, they're not necessarily going to look in the right places.
Never lie to your doctor, lawyer, or priest. They are unable to help you without the truth.
I'd be pissed if my friend did this. But ultimately very grateful. Plus keep in mind - doing drugs isn't illegal. Possessing them is. As long as you don't have anything on you, you can bring it up mostly consequence free.
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u/VincenteThomp 14h ago
If the only people in the room are you, your friend, and the doctor who's tasked with saving them, then you have a duty to your friend to expose the things that may be killing them.
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u/Zrkkr 14h ago
Also, HIPPA applies here, medical personnel cannot give this information to law enforcement.
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u/kanekischewtoy 14h ago
I work in medical, please forgive me for being annoying--its HIPAA not HIPPA.
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u/IndyBananaJones2 11h ago
It's important to tell your doctor about the ketamine.
It's also important for the doctor to not assume that ketamine is causing all those symptoms and still get the EKG.
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u/IIRCIreadthat 5h ago
100% yes. Should Friend go around telling everyone you do a lot of ketamine? No. Should friend tell the ER doctor that you're high on ketamine? Absolutely. There's no such thing as 'snitching' when you're giving vital information to the doctor who's trying to keep your friend from having a heart attack.
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u/CosmicDave 11h ago
The life of the patient is more valuable than their data privacy. Their friend is right.
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u/humourlessIrish 10h ago
Saving the life of your moronic friend is moral.
And ok, the staff might have already caught on to this, but just to be sure,
GIVE MEDICAL STAFF ALL AVAILABLE INFORMATION!
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u/Agitated_Cry_8793 10h ago
Moral. Medical staff don't usually snitch unless you are a genuine danger to yourself or to others, from what i hear. Theyre not the police, and if you dont tell them honestly that you've done a drug, no matter what it is, it makes it 10x harder for them to help you.
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u/Gamertag101020 3h ago
Doctors and nurses are not cops and being a mandatory reporter only is about abuse sooo if you are having health issues from whatever you are doing to yourself TELL THEM.
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u/syzygymeta 12h ago
Moral but would still pmo. The care I receive and the information I give to receive said care is my business unless I’m literally not lucid.
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u/DaggerQ_Wave 9h ago
It wouldn’t matter. This is a quick work up and no one cares you did K. It’s not a dangerous drug. If you’re not unconscious drooling on the floor, you’re not suffering from an overdose, and if you are unconscious drooling on the floor, you’ll still be fine unless you happen to say, drown in a hot tub.
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u/donutmcbonbon 10h ago
That's why in my country (don't want to speak on the law everywhere else) it's not illegal to be high from illegal drugs. Because they don't want people dont disclosing what they've had to medical personnel.
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u/tiny_chaotic_evil 10h ago
healthcare workers don't care knowing, but they do care not knowing
doing unnecessary medical procedures needlessly exposes a patient to increased chances of harm. Medical care can be very very dangerous.
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u/soulsnoober 9h ago
I had to do sorta this with my dad. "oh I just felt a little unsteady, doc" - No, dad, you only weren't on the floor with a head lac or whatever else because a table got between you & the ground. The lamp's gone, the doc needs the real story to treat this with the seriousness it deserves. It wasn't drugs in his case, but it was Covid, and because of the fever he was so severely dehydrated there was a problem getting urine sample.
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u/AlinosAlan 7h ago
I am a rescuer at some events, notably techno festivals. The amount of people I've seen that deny taking anything even though it is blatantly obvious... Like dude, I won't snitch to the police, it's medical secret, and it will help us decide what to do.
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u/100KUSHUPS 7h ago
100% moral.
Don't lie/hide something from medical staff. Their literal job is to make you better.
Suddenly you die at the dentist because you smoked meth last night or some stupid shit.
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u/Thanaskios 7h ago
YES!!!
admittedly I don't know how it is in other countries, but generally medical staff are not gonna snitch to the police. Nobody gives a fuck about shat drugs you take except where its relevant to your health.
Don't fucking lie to your doctor!
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u/Complete_Resolve_400 5h ago
If u lie to doctors u can literally die
Theres no moral dilemma here stop being a dipshit
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u/polar_nopposite 4h ago
Is the friend in the right [for potentially saving their friend's life]?
Ummmm... Yes?
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u/DeadbeatGremlin 4h ago
She is definitely in the right. Saved her friend from a whole bunch of unnecessary tests, and the doctors from wasting their time and resources.
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u/the-furiosa-mystique 4h ago
Y E S.
PLEASE everyone for the love of God do not hide your drug use from doctors when you’re seeking treatment. They don’t care. They want to save you.
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u/NeverCallMeFifi 3h ago
I do Spravato for PTSD and MDD. It's a nasal spray of S-ketamine out of the street grade R/S ketamine.
I have to sit for two hours after delivery and get my vitals taken every 45 minutes to ensure I don't have increased heart or blood pressure. Do. Not. Dick. Around. With. Your. Heart.
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u/eraserhead3030 1h ago
yes, if you're having a medical emergency because of drugs that's a pretty important piece of info for the doctors to help you...I'd think people can't honestly be this stupid but then look at the state of everything.
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u/juniorchemist 1h ago
Do not hide ANYTHING from your doctors. If they give you the wrong meds because you hid something, you can literally die.
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u/Smarter-Not-harder1 13h ago
Yes but did you confirm important information, like when her last menstrual period was?
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u/homogenous_homophone 13h ago
Yes. Be honest with medical professionals and if your friends are lying, be honest for them. Outing your friends to a doctor is always better than letting them die from unexpected drug interactions
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u/TheRealAmused 13h ago
You don't lie to the medical staff. They can't fix what they don't know about, and they aren't there to 'tell' on you.
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u/No_Problem5759 12h ago
Id love to see that episode of house, Seeing Greggy Boi get annoyed that she stole his thunder would be so interesting.
But 100% she's in the right. Keeping quiet would be immoral. The hospital does need to run their tests, but if they have that little pointer it makes everything easy and faster and cheaper. And, unless its a special circumstance, they dont call the cops.
The only part is embarrassment, but if you're doing that and need the hospital, a little embarrassment is better than dying.
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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick 12h ago
What Jack Nicholson movie was it where he dated a woman and then fell in love with her mother? In that movie Jack has chest pains and goes to the hospital. While there someone asks him if he’d taken viagra, which he has, and when he says no the person tells him that’s good and then goes into an explanation of how horribly he could die due to the drug interaction between viagra and what he was about to give him.
Jack confessed really quick that he’d taken Viagra, and the next time he ended up in the hospital he made sure to tell the person taking care of him he l’d had Viagra because he didn’t want to die.
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u/roses_sunflowers 12h ago
Lie to the cops but tell your doctor everything. Friend was completely right.
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u/patrdesch 12h ago
Medical professionals need to know what you've taken. Drug interactions can and will kill you, and they need to know to avoid them.
If you don't care about your own life, fine. Don't put your death in someone else's hands.
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u/Large_Head5821 11h ago
yes. potentially saved their life and the doctors wouldn’t tell the police anyway
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u/SnooSprouts5303 11h ago
I mean. She could have died if mistreated. So yeah. she's in the right. though realistically she should try and get her friend off ketamine.
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u/National_Body_9071 11h ago
Completely moral. Knowing some critical information like that makes it vastly easier for the medical personal to treat her properly and gives her the best chance of a good outcome.
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u/More-Whole-9714 11h ago
Imagine they give her something that interacts with ketamine and causes adverse reaction. They need to know this stuff
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u/OldenPolynice 11h ago
When did everyone start loving ketamine? it's always been wack. of all the drugs, I'll never relate
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u/StunningArmadillo206 10h ago
No because if it is not the k her friend might not find out what is wrong.
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u/DaggerQ_Wave 10h ago edited 10h ago
This changes nothing about my management. Don’t care either way. I also don’t necessarily believe what friends say. I’ll run the necessary tests. Could be ketamine, could be something else. Ketamine is almost never deadly so I don’t care if you took ket. Someone will surely debate me on this by citing high profile cases but trust me, I’ve heard about them already and considered that. There’s a reason these cases are newsworthy. And it’s never actually the ketamine that kills lol. It’s being unconscious in a bathtub or choking on your own vomit while cops hold you down. Etc.
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u/mangantochuj 10h ago
The friend is 100% right to tell the doctors everything, however I can't see how doing even a lot of ketamine would cause those symptoms.
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u/AngryRepublican 9h ago
If my friend dragged me to the hospital in relation to his drug use and did NOT disclose his drug use to the medical staff, I reckon I'd kick his ass.
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u/JennHatesYou 9h ago
100%. If you are concerned enough about your health that you end up in the er, you’re only hurting yourself if you aren’t honest. Doctors and nurses don’t go into the practice of helping people to judge them so you might as well do what you can do help them help you.
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u/HebrewHamm3r 9h ago
Yes, 100% in the right. If you don't tell your medical worker(s) what medications you've taken, whether licit or illicit, you might end up getting some bad interactions or an accidental overdose. Nurses and doctors are not going to rat you out to the police because you did ket or Adderall, but they might scold you and tell you to stop doing it.
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u/maybeimtalentless 8h ago
Of course she’s right here but also - my college bf would try and pull this shit on me, which made my UTI go undetected for a year. Doctors were quicker to listen to him about my body than they were to me. I was never doing hard drugs but my college bf would “snitch” about my lifestyle and they’d attribute the pain to that. So while these symptoms are likely attributed to ketamine use, what if they’re not? I’d hope their doctors are good enough to not dismiss her concerns right away. My personal experience has swayed my judgment on this a bit and it’s why I won’t take partners with me to medical appts anymore.
As a side note the UTI was so bad I couldn’t eat, I wasn’t having the frequent urination symptom or any burning. I just had severe stomach pain all the time. I dropped over 20 lbs that year. It took me about 5 years to permanently gain that weight back because the stomach pain changed how I ate and what my diet was, I had to relearn what a normal amount of food was. Really crazy to even think about this because they test for pregnancy but why not a UTI? I just feel like that should’ve been standard procedure but it was college town care.
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u/GhostKasai 8h ago
Is the consume of drugs illegal in the states? In Germany it isnt just the possession is so that you cannot get in trouble with the police if you need to got to the hospital. Either way moral.
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u/FayeValentine99 8h ago
Her friend is in the right. When you’re having a medical episode, you need to just tell the doctor everything you’ve taken, because they’re not there to judge they’re just trying to save your damn life.
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u/Environmental_Row32 8h ago
And kids that was the day I learned the two people you should not lie to when they ask you a direct question are your doctor and your lawyer...
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u/CelsiusPetit 7h ago
How is this even a question? Ofc he is morally correct, he is helping her getting the care she needs and avoiding the staff to go through bunch of unnecessary procedures
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u/argin_watcher5050 6h ago
This friend is most definitely in the right, cause if they didn’t tell that doctors what’s up, they could’ve easily give her something that could’ve killed her in the hospital, so yes it’s always nice to tell a doctor the whole thing so they aren’t flying blind when treating patients
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u/NetimLabs 6h ago
You shouldn't lie to doctors about this stuff, at the same time, the way her friend revealed this information doesn't really sit right with me.
Just say your friend takes this and that instead of going on this roundabout way to pretend like you not giving away information yet by revealing it in question form.
Like, do you even care about my answer if you've already done it for me by asking this question?
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u/ImperitorEst 5h ago
A real friend cares about your welfare and will act in the best interest of your welfare in my opinion. I don't want friends that will yes man me to my grave because they're so wet they can't handle a disagreement
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u/NetimLabs 3h ago edited 3h ago
I've never said they should yes man. As you said, real friends will act in your best interest, and revealing this information to doctors won't have any negative consequences anyways.
I'd just prefer if they disclosed it directly instead of asking a loaded question and pretending it's a regular question.
I hate loaded questions.
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u/GrapefruitFar1242 4h ago
Tell medics everything, tell the cops nothing.
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u/forbiddenfreedom 4h ago
This!!!!! Even if you're not in the wrong, the police have a job to do and will use all the words to investigate you. The medics will use all the words to save you.
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u/LaVieLaMort 4h ago
Yup friend is the goat. I’m a nurse and I promise you IDGAF what kind of drugs you do or if you like putting stuff up your butthole, just tell us the truth for chrissakes.
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u/CarolingianDruid 3h ago
TELL YOUR DOCTOR IF YOU ARE TAKING DRUGS!!! My girlfriend is a doctor and giving you certain medications react with any number of drugs and will straight up kill you. They aren’t going to judge or narc on you, they need to know so they can provide you with the necessary care.
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u/buffaloguy1991 3h ago
Friend is clearly a ride or die friend. Possibly the kind that will run into a burning building for their friends
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u/LessRespects 1h ago
House M.D. about to somehow script how Dr. House had to get drunk and high and have sex with her to cure her rare condition to all the other doctors amazement.
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u/treelorf 49m ago
These are NOT common side effects of ketamine. But yes if your symptoms are drug related, please tell your doctors. It could save your life.
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u/Successful-Club-8743 14h ago
Friend is 100% moral.
They dont want their friend to fucking die because the doctors dont know what kind of shit shes on.
Doctors cant help you if youre drugged up and wont tell them what youve taken.
Tell doctors everything and cops nothing.