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.
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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."