The allergy to alcohol has actually caused me more issues than anything else. When my doctor passed away 5 years ago, my insurance hooked me up with another practice. Told my doctor the same thing I said above. Week later get in an accident which resulted in several fractured ribs and the attending doctor leaves me for 5 hours in severe pain. When I finally talk to the nurse, I am told the doctor refuses to give me anything for the pain due to my records. I then grab my backpack in front of the nurse, open my medication which back then was 100mg morphine, and take 2 tablets in front of her. She turns pale and runs out of the room and next thing I know several people come in, one with a machine to pump my stomach, the other two to TRY restraining me. They didn't get too close either. My Taser was in my hand before they even got close. Next security, bunch of other people, then not much later several officers who know me from work. Doctor comes in as well and when the officers ask them what is going on, the doctor tells them I'm an addict, the nurse tells them I just took a fatal dose of morphine after seeking. The officers were actually on my side and tell them they really screwed up and that I sure as hell am no addict. Doctor says my records state I'm an alcoholic. That's when I find out my new doctor was an incompetent idiot. He assumed when I said allergic to alcohol, I was referring to being an alcoholic. Btw, that doctor is no longer my doctor. That out of the way, I now need to explain the two pills I took. Which for me isn't a fatal dose. That's my normal regimen. I actually cut down on my own using high rated CBD, which my doctor I now have approves of. Anyway, the officers ask the doctor and nurse what my medication report states. Guess what? Neither of them ever bothered to pull it in the first place. Now both doctor and nurse are looking extremely stupid. I can barely talk as it is. Try breathing with cracked ribs. Nurse then tries stating I attacked her with my Taser. Officers look at her, then me, then the big goons that were supposed to restrain me so they could pump my stomach. The officer says "If I were in that bed and those ugly brutes came at me, Id be pulling more than a Taser. Fix your screw-up!" And the officers leave. Someone from Admin comes in and everything gets straightened out. Turns out, the moment the doctor saw the alcoholic part of my report, he never bothered reading anything else. Had he read it fully, he would have seen I have cancer, he would have seen I have bone and muscle issues and another area that also shows my medications. HE at least apologizes and puts a note in the system until I see my primary to get his screw-up fixed. I refused the pain meds for the first 6 hours. I had already taken 200mg, which surprisingly worked. Normally new injuries aren't affected due to resistance to my medications. Security asked me to hand my Taser over. I told them to try taking it from me. Administration seeing the hell their hospital caused, just told them to go. There is also a very big note under my allergies section that now says "Allergy to Alcohol - CAUSES RESPITORY DISTRESS, NOT AN ALCOHOLIC" Back in the 70s when I was a kid was when I found out about that allergy. I was sick, and my parents were giving me a cough medication. When I couldn't breathe, everyone thought it was the sickness causing the breathing issue. It was my mom who actually figured it out after several trips to the ER. There was alcohol in the cough medication. When I came home from school. kindergarten, I had a slight cough and my mom wanting to head things off before another trip to the ER, gave me cough medication and within 30 minutes, ended up going to the ER anyway. She realized it was the medication. It was the doctors who discovered it was the alcohol content. Anyway, as for the hospital. The next time I ended up there, there must have been some note in the system because it felt like I was at a 5 star hotel. I was filling in for a caregiver that time and the person I was caring for, decided a fork looked funny jabbed in my shoulder. You know, TV makes it look like objects like that are easy to remove. They sure as hell aren't. I guess I should be happy he chose my shoulder and not more painful spots >_<