WTF!!??
Durhamites should know that it is policy of
the Duke Hospital ER to drug test EVERYBODY
that is admitted, with urine sample tests. The lab
machines are closeby and results come back in
one hour.
This of course is to insure accurate diagnoses
of the wide assortment of stabbing, gunshot and
car wreck victims that besiege the place everyday.
These unfortunate people can be assured of world-
class medical treatment, most often at Duke expense.
Duke surgical residents however get invaluable
training in treatment of serious head wounds and
other traumas. We doubt legal niceties are discussed .
On a related note, the reason there were Duke cops
stationed at the ER entrance on that fateful Monday
night in March, is because of past behavioral problems
of certain clients. During a periodic wave of gang violence
there were a few instances where gang-bangers failed
to finish off their targets, and proceeded to chase them
down into the ER department, guns waving, in order
to complete the job. Duke decided to build at great
expense a bulletproof fortress entrance to the ER
through which everyone must now pass, for weapons
checks.
Similarly, when the Durham PD decided to move
its headquarters from next to City Hall to the newly
vacant, but very nice digs of the People's Life Insurance
Co., next to the North Carolina Mutual life Insurance Co.
headquarters on W. Chapel Hill St., local gunslingers
found the large plate glass windows tempting targets.
They figured out whose offices were whose and started
shooting away. All the windows had to be replaced
with a tinted bullet-proof variety of glass.
Our city leaders are still debating whether or not to
bulletproof all the city transit buses and school buses.