We have a patient who calls every other week for some fabricated emergency; I've been out twice, once because she had 'difficulty breathing' which was really 'I went on a bender after the cops took my boyfriend out of the apartment so the neighbors didn't have to listen to us fight and needed some attention' and once for a 'broken ankle' which she got whilst clopping around her flat in high heels drunk off her ass. (She walked to the ambulance and was home in half an hour.) We have seven nursing homes in our town and every time we go to deal with her they wait for us. (We're all volunteer. They get us when we can get there.) On one level I feel sorry for her because she is clearly an alcoholic, but on the other hand I resent the amount of legal propriety and paperwork involved in concluding a call to her home. We don't have anything like 'abuse of service' round these parts.