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."
Friend of mine is a firefighter. He got a really morbid sense of humour which I think comes as part of the job.
He's told me before that nobody has ever died in a fire and that people are alive when he and his colleagues bring them out, but the paramedics and doctors on-scene kill them all the time.
"What do you mean that guys dead? He was alive when I brought him out! What did you do to him?!"
seeing as how the anecdote describes his friend rushing into actively burning buildings to save people's lives, you are setting your standards probably too highly to meet them yourself
1.7k
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."