Every ER staff probably has tales of folk who qualified for a Darwin award, deserved one badly, and didn't get one.
This guy will show up, face-down on a gurney, snarling and whimpering like a whipped dog, with a smoldering q-tip stuck in his butt. ER staff have better things to do, and do not deserve this kind of gratuitous bullshit and mental abuse.
On the other hand if a Doc treated Hogleg for a badly blistered nostril, that's a lot less fuss. When he finds that the patient got this way from partying with a merry bunch the likes of Scovie, et. al., he's likely to be sympathetic... maybe even envious. He might try to get himself invited to the next party.
I wouldn't call Hogleg's antics "stupid", if the result was a doctor showing up every time some chileheads get together... i'd call that fortuitous.
