Christmastime hospital-room raid busts dying man for using marijuana extract

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Since You Brought That Up...

...when I was around 50 I had chest pains, so to the ER I went.
It was nighttime. They took blood for the enzyme test & scheduled me for a stress echogram the next day. My wife went home.
Turns out it was acute esophogitis, and antacid for a week ended it.
While getting the echogram/ekg on the treadmill, I was less than 2/3rds of the way through when the cardiologist said "This wasn't a heart attack. Not a thing wrong with your heart." Then we went back to talking about golf. He told me he'd sign the release right away.
Now, to your point: I go upstairs and get dressed, call my wife & tell her she can come & get me. (25 minute drive).
I go tell the nurse my wife will be here in around 25 minutes. She says "You shouldn't have done that. You can't just leave!"
I reminded her it was a hospital not a prison and I was going downstairs to wait for my wife in 15 minutes. She was passed.
3 minutes later, she's got discharge papers & wasn't mad anymore.
But, her first instinct was to tell me I couldn't just leave even after I knew I'd be ok.