# WAY more than you wanted to know about Rudy Giuliani **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 15, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-more-than-you-wanted-to-know-about-rudy-giuliani/984095 "2023-05-15T21:07:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 211
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-more-than-you-wanted-to-know-about-rudy-giuliani/984095/211 "2023-11-14T21:52:30Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Today I learned Jan 2016 for me. > [@Medicinal use for ethyl alcohol](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medicinal-use-for-ethyl-alcohol/742544/4): > > Doctors sometimes order an alcoholic beverage for a patient, as an appetite stimulant or sleep aid. It doesn’t happen much, but I can assure you that every hospital pharmacy has some beer, wine, or even stronger stuff on hand, and many nursing homes do too. We logged it in the C-II file, along with morphine, cocaine, OxyContin, etc. Incredibly, at one time it was even used intravenously to stop preterm labor. :eek: It worked, too. I’d read about it, and a pharmacist who had dispensed it for… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/way-more-than-you-wanted-to-know-about-rudy-giuliani/984095)._