Student tox screen?

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Apparently you can buy a little pot from Colorado online.

 

[MSmentor018]

well regardless you still gotta get through rotations soon. I don't know where they mandate uds. you've already been rolling the dice and gambling everyday you show up. if you smoked recently, well what's done is done. just stop. period. re evaluate what's important to you. if you decide to keep smoking just know it's like vegas. "the house always win"

 

[dchristismi]

Aw... I was really hoping this would be a necrobump by the OP, telling us what ended up happening. (ie, did our intrepid hero get screened, lose his license, or did he fly though residency and landed safely in attendinghood? Inquiring minds would like to know.)

 

[RustedFox]

Limited idea why I'm chiming in on this, but here goes:

I like alcohol. I don't like THC. I've tried them both, in all their (conventional) delivery methods, at one point or another in my life.

I can say with 100% certainty that once I was licensed to practice medicine, that I no longer had any THC. Simple decision.

I say this all the time with my patients.

I have put hundreds of patients in the ICU for their alcohol-related problems.

I have never put a stoner in the ICU.

Why? .... I dunno..... they forgot?

Okay... go home. Kthxbye.

Count me amongst the docs that say "MJ is less dangerous than alcohol."

The stoners are bothersome, yes. They can't remember what you said in your last sentence. But, they're not violent and aggressive.

Yet, MJ is "illegal" and alcohol is "celebrated".

You graduated from (X-school)? Pop the champagne. Lets drink to success.
You had a baby? Pop the (whatever), lets drink to virility or whatever.
You had a good thing happen to you?! Let's drink to ( xxxxx ).
[Repeat]

One is celebrated. The other is criminal.

Let me re-iterate. I don't like THC. At no point am I going to fall in with (nonspecific) homeboy who has a bowl handy and "spark up". My wife has made it very clear to me that if I ever come home under the influence of THC... that our marriage is done-and-over. Not a problem for me. Not my thing.

But damned if I don't go to work tonight and have to deal with (X) patient who is turbo-drunk and makes me wish that EMS never picked him up.

In the same shift, I will have to deal with "Dude; where's my car?!"

Adios, MF.

 

[deleted109597]

I have never put a stoner in the ICU.

I have. But it was BOOP from aspergillosis from marijuana.
However, if you took a poll of people today, which presents with more patients on a daily basis, I would have to say they're pretty equal. I'm seeing at least one hyperemesis per shift, and if you count the synthetic cannabinoid population, I see probably 3 of those zombies per day.

I agree that the long term sequelae are generally less, but acutely it can still cause issues. Colorado has an epidemic of driving while stoned accidents occurring. They were or still are trying to figure out what level they can put down as a DUI. This is being fought by the "it's harmless" crowd as well as the "any amount is too much" crowd.

If they could measure only acute use, and it were legal? I wouldn't give two ****s about who uses it at home. Just like alcohol. But I've also seen nurses get fired after taking trips to Colorado and California because they failed tests. It is what it is. You don't change the law by breaking it.

 

[littlejuan]

I know this thread is old but FYI I had to do a drug test for an away as a student, for residency and for my first job. Just for those wondering.