Comments for the Professor's Vent (psychonomic.blogspot.com)
The below is in my blog too:
There is a certain amount of pride and even arrogance in thinking that we are going to save all of them.
People die. If a rescuer gets hurt by placing themselves at unreasonable risk, they do a disservice to the original patients. The other rescuers will place a higher priority on their injured compatriot and the initial victims will be further delayed in the treatment they recieve.
I feel that there is little place for heroics in EMS. What wed do is, by nature, heroic. If we are to consistently provide the best, most thorough care we can, that can only be done by being consistent, thoughtful, careful and intelligent. Calmly and intelligently assessing risk is one of the ways we provide that high level of care to our patients. Failing do do so puts them at risk and belies our purpose.
Go out in a blaze of glory? No, I'd rather die at an old, old age. I can save more patients that way.
--maddog
The below is in my blog too:
There is a certain amount of pride and even arrogance in thinking that we are going to save all of them.
People die. If a rescuer gets hurt by placing themselves at unreasonable risk, they do a disservice to the original patients. The other rescuers will place a higher priority on their injured compatriot and the initial victims will be further delayed in the treatment they recieve.
I feel that there is little place for heroics in EMS. What wed do is, by nature, heroic. If we are to consistently provide the best, most thorough care we can, that can only be done by being consistent, thoughtful, careful and intelligent. Calmly and intelligently assessing risk is one of the ways we provide that high level of care to our patients. Failing do do so puts them at risk and belies our purpose.
Go out in a blaze of glory? No, I'd rather die at an old, old age. I can save more patients that way.
--maddog
Hardly original, but way back during the Triassic period my instructor told us the following:
There are old heros
and
There are bold heros
but
There is no such thing as an old bold hero.
The most important thing is that we get to go home at the end of the shift. I wrote 2 articles on that topic recently:
Yellow Alert and
To be (armoured) or not to be....
Safety on the job is really important no matter what you do. The most important things is that every time you leave home you have a corresponding return.
Hardly original, but way back during the Triassic period my instructor told us the following:
There are old heros
and
There are bold heros
but
There is no such thing as an old bold hero.
The most important thing is that we get to go home at the end of the shift. I wrote 2 articles on that topic recently:
Yellow Alert and
To be (armoured) or not to be....
Safety on the job is really important no matter what you do. The most important things is that every time you leave home you have a corresponding return.
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