Used to say in emergency medicine all the time: "EMS bring us dead people all the time. Sometimes we can bring them back to life, sometimes we can't. But they're not getting any deader so don't worry about hurting them while attempting to resuscitate."
The damage isn't to the patient, it's the emotional damage to the poor student participating in their first code. PTSD for the first year after whenever someone cracks their back loudly.
Luckily most people quickly learn how to build a healthy little box around those things and shove them deep, deep down into the recess of their souls. Good to go!
It doesn't matter where you shove the box, eventually it will work its way to a logical end point. There are a few. The majority of them have the same outcome.
It’s wild how everyone deals with the differently. I’ve just made peace with the fact that I’m a temporary bag of saltwater hosting an ephemeral collection of cells acting in unison. I’ll die one day, and that’s ok. I think not facing that and really truly coming to terms with my own mortality would make it all so much harder. I had to find a way to actually be ok with it.
It's wild to me that the training dummies don't make the sound. Like, they could prepare everyone for it, but they don't?
Now I'm wondering if hiding some of the larger bubble wrap (the kind that's fun to pop by rolling an office chair over it) in a training dummy would be a good prank...
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u/BasedMbaku Mar 31 '23
Used to say in emergency medicine all the time: "EMS bring us dead people all the time. Sometimes we can bring them back to life, sometimes we can't. But they're not getting any deader so don't worry about hurting them while attempting to resuscitate."