That's an interesting story, to say the least. I think I'd have a hard time witnessing the scene without being able to do anything about it (even knowing that the right help was there and better prepared than I).
When I flew with LifeFlight last year, I talked to the flight nurse who treated the Olympic cyclist that was killed by the Sheriff's Deputy in Cupertino a few weeks earlier. She said that when the patient is there, she could focus on her job, but reading about this athlete in the newspaper was what humanized her. I think a certain amount of distance is required to deal with the harshness of that work, but everyone's human.
Still, I want MY doctors to be cool, calm and collected when *I* get into trouble.
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Date: 2009-03-14 06:45 am (UTC)When I flew with LifeFlight last year, I talked to the flight nurse who treated the Olympic cyclist that was killed by the Sheriff's Deputy in Cupertino a few weeks earlier. She said that when the patient is there, she could focus on her job, but reading about this athlete in the newspaper was what humanized her. I think a certain amount of distance is required to deal with the harshness of that work, but everyone's human.
Still, I want MY doctors to be cool, calm and collected when *I* get into trouble.