Just a quick post on saving lives. I always thought it would be a regular occurring thing where someone was rushed in and we brought out the paddles, after a few jolts the person would be back from the dead. Things like that do happen with car crashes, really bad infections, ect. but the majority of "life saving" goes on without you realizing it, unless you stop to think about it. Such as the kid with really bad diarrhea whom you give fluids to by IV. It's second nature to do so and really not a big deal...but he would likely die without it. Or the little baby who was born early and doesn't have the "stuff" in his/her lungs yet to breath...we just intubate for a quick second and pump in the stuff...no big deal...but kids would also probably die without that...or the last one, mentioned in my previous post, vaccinations. It's a simple shot that, if you haven't seen the actual diseases, SEEMS like a slight inconvenience to the patient...but again those shots are saving lives. I guess the point of my post was that sometimes I get caught up in the automatism of what we do and forget what a huge privilege it is to have an effect on so many. I'm NOT saying I'm special, these kids would likely get saved without me and a good deal would survive without these treatments, just that when you think about it medicine has gotten really good at saving lives without most people realizing it, even the people who are doing the saving.
Newbie-Doc
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