"Not so much saving a life...

Feb 21, 2006 16:42

as prolonging a death." This heard from a fellow medic at the hospital. Earlier she had gotten pulses and blood pressure back in person in cardiac arrest. I congratulated her and she pointed out that, in all likelihood, she was just postponing her patient's death. This is true since most people who die stay that way. When you get pulses and blood pressure back, there's usually way too much brain damage to live. Just a funny little vignette from work.

I haven't been updating, there's too much to catch up on. I always put off updating at work since I hate getting a call mid-posting. It tends to be during a really clever post. I can say that since my reading audience hasn't read this brilliant gems. They were lost to the perils of auto-logout.

My co-worker needs the one network cable available here. I'll post more later.

Miss you all in particular and LJ in general!

sad, medicine, funny, philosophy

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