Doctor: So say that someone did come in having ingested methanol. What would you do?
Student 1: Well, you'd give them alcohol right? Ethanol?
Doctor: Give them ethanol?!
Student 1: Well, yeah because, y'know the enzymes that break them down are the same so the enzyme would break down the ethanol and not the methanol.
Doctor: Okay, I guess they used to do that, but that isn't really done anymore. Say you were going to do that, what would be the best way to get it into the patient?
Student 2: IV?
Doctor: No. As it turns out you can only give someone IV alcohol to 10% which is about 20 proof.
Student 1: Enema?
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