Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Oz alkie gets hammered on hospital hand sanitiser

Doctors at a Melbourne hospital have suggested hospitals Down Under would do well to lock up their hand sanitiser, after one patient got lashed on six bottles of antibacterial brew.

According to a concerned letter in the Medical Journal of Australia, a 45-year-old chap with "a history of polysubstance misuse" was being treated at The Alfred for "alcohol-related gastritis" when he became "increasingly drowsy".

Read the full story on The Register

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