You'd be stunned. I've had to stop adults from firing the saline solution at one another, I've had to chase people away from the crash cart, away from office supplies, away from the employee break room, away from the records room, especially away from the in-house pharmacy--gah!
If a kit like that was out within reach at the hospital I worked at, that meant we had already charged it to someone. Meaning that he would be stealing from another patient, and wasting a poor orderly's time trying to find out where the gorram kit went.
That said, I've seen patients get exasperated with nursing staff and start performing procedures on their own. Usually, it's charging bandages - and there's usually a big stink when this happens, because we wash our hands in triplicate, and have gloves, sometimes face masks--all for damn good reason.
Captain Self-Suture has probably given himself an infection. There's a decent chance that he'll need follow-up treatments because he chose to do this himself instead of waiting. There's also a decent chance of the infection doing bad things to him, anything from a rash that makes him rip the stitches open while scratching in his sleep, to some horrible bug that gets into a vital organ and kills him.
I'd have probably smacked him upside the head, frankly. Maybe the lawsuit will teach him a lesson.
