I've got an idea

Last night, I spent two and a half hours in A&E resus trying to revive people who have got themselves unconscious on drink and/or drugs and whenever I’m in such situations, it strikes me how little these people care about the impact of their actions. They rarely show any remorse for what they’ve done and seem to have little insight of all the problems that they are causing. The last “gentleman” I was dealing with thanked me for bringing him out of his drug-fuelled coma by spitting at me and calling me “fucking wanker.” Sometimes I really wonder why we bother, I really do.

But I’ve had an idea.

I reckon that every person, male or female, who comes into A&E unconscious because of drink or drugs should have the hair one side of their head cut off and a big letter D (for Dickhead) shaved into it.

When word gets around town that the punishment for turning up to A&E in a self-inflicted drink/drug-fuelled coma is that you’re going to look like a twat for a few weeks, maybe we’ll start to see less of this coming through the door on a weekend.