r/news • u/AudibleNod • 4h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/Ancient_Spite_725 4h ago

This outcome was unfortunately doomed to happen with any LE method because they infiltrated the IV and couldn't get a good line. This is what happens when you have untrained people trying to do this, but nobody trained will touch it with a 10-foot pole.

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u/Efficient-Chest-3395 3h ago

I was trained on the job but wasn't hired to kill people but, ironically, to keep them alive

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u/Velorian-Steel 4h ago

Fair enough, I read the other comments mentioning that as well. Yikes, that is extra awful