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Originally Posted by Shawnee123
You are cracking me UP! Do you think your doc gets drug tested? And what does this have to do with the price of eggs in China again?
I've seen plenty of drunk docs...waited on them at the club. They weren't doctoring. The lawyers weren't lawyering. The business owners weren't business ownering. The gold pros weren't golf proing.
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Be sure to divide out alcohol abuse from drug abuse. Yes many hospitals require physicians to take drug tests as a condition of employment and they can require them to take one if they are suspected of abusing drugs. There was a time that a greater degree of alcohol abuse may have been tolerated, like in the 1970's, but those times are gone. Acute alcohol intoxication is much harder to cover up in the work place, drug abuse is much easier to cover up as tolerances increase. Any provider who smelled of alcohol would be immediately rated out by an employee. Drug abusers are much harder to discover and deal with. Drug testing only covers some of the available drugs which can be abused in the hospital setting.