I've been speculating on this too, and I figure Stethoscope wasn't really a doctor, either. For one thing, why would he be moving him like you mentioned, and another- he has a stethoscope, why didn't he use it instead of checking his carotid pulse with his hand? I think it is to prevent anyone else from checking his pulse there, and the stethoscope was more because when people see a stethoscope around your neck, they tend to do what you say, even if it doesn't make sense. The second responder guy may have been looking for Sherlock's femoral artery to check for a pulse there.
But they may have also been doctors and they moved him because they detected a pulse. If they determined he was dead, they wouldn't have moved the body.
Rather than a drug to subdue Sherlock's vital signs and the ball in his armpit to make his radial pulse undetectable for John, I have been thinking possible honey intoxication. Sherlock mentioned rhododendron ponticum at the police station when they were trying to narrow down where the kids were being kept. It's a plant that grows all over Europe and Asia, and honey made from the pollen of this plant causes intoxication, some of the symptoms of which are very slow heartbeat, low blood pressure to the point that a pulse can't be detected in the radial artery or even so low the blood pressure doesn't register, very suppressed respiration,pupils become nonreactive to light, ect... And in areas where it happens on a regular basis, many people don't consider it dangerous enough to seek medical care because death by honey intoxication is very rare. The effects set in very quickly after eating the honey, and wear off within 24 hours. Given Sherlock's canon retirement, this seems to be a good fit. And Honey intoxication symptoms might have made his vital signs weak enough to explain Stethoscope and Second Responder picking him up and rushing him into the hospital rather than letting people think he was dead so he'd have to stay there till the police arrived.
But they may have also been doctors and they moved him because they detected a pulse. If they determined he was dead, they wouldn't have moved the body.
Rather than a drug to subdue Sherlock's vital signs and the ball in his armpit to make his radial pulse undetectable for John, I have been thinking possible honey intoxication. Sherlock mentioned rhododendron ponticum at the police station when they were trying to narrow down where the kids were being kept. It's a plant that grows all over Europe and Asia, and honey made from the pollen of this plant causes intoxication, some of the symptoms of which are very slow heartbeat, low blood pressure to the point that a pulse can't be detected in the radial artery or even so low the blood pressure doesn't register, very suppressed respiration,pupils become nonreactive to light, ect... And in areas where it happens on a regular basis, many people don't consider it dangerous enough to seek medical care because death by honey intoxication is very rare. The effects set in very quickly after eating the honey, and wear off within 24 hours. Given Sherlock's canon retirement, this seems to be a good fit. And Honey intoxication symptoms might have made his vital signs weak enough to explain Stethoscope and Second Responder picking him up and rushing him into the hospital rather than letting people think he was dead so he'd have to stay there till the police arrived.
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